Posted on 03/26/2017 11:12:31 AM PDT by BlessedBeGod
Agreed. Gorsuch is an authoritarian.
Roe vs Wade....that's a different story.
The Freedom to kill another human being in their weakest stage is an abomination.
Anyone who would stay in his radical church is no Scalia that is for sure. I am more than a little concerned about this guy but there is no stopping him so we just have to pray for the best.
Sounds like an attempt to weaken support. Ignore.
Correct He's no Scalia, but he's not as bad as choosing someone merely because she's a wise latina with a vagina.
He goes to a very liberal church in a liberal part of Colorado,correct?
This guy is John Roberts at best and A.Kennedy at worst.imo
I just want a judge who can apply the law as it exists to a set of facts and will interpret and apply the Constitution as our Framers intended it. A judge who will look to the plain meaning of the Constitution as the Supreme Law of the Land.
That may result in the judge having to make some rulings he finds personally repugnant. He has the same remedy for that as we do—lobby the legislature to get the law changed.
His own personal views on any topic mean NOTHING. Provided, of course that he is if the truly sterling character we must demand for our judiciary.
Thin soup.
Besides, the worry is moot. He’s going to be confirmed. If for some reason he isn’t, it won’t be because of the things brought up above.
Seems to me he’s answering questions in an indifferent manner, which is how it’s supposed to be. If he starts inserting his personal opinions, he’s no better than a liberal activist justice. He should follow the letter of the law and answer questions with that at the forefront.
He spoke truthfully and his answers are not troubling in the least......
If he answered he wanted to overturn Roe v Wade, he would have been required to recuse himself when the case came before the court....
Not to mention he would never be confirmed
So effectively, by stating he will follow the law when considering a previous ruling, he now is open to consider new cases.....
These kind of questions of Supreme Court nominees are simply trap questions....to either bury their appointment or remove them from considering a case....
There never will be another Justice Scalia, just as there never will be another Justice Thomas. They are original thinkers with a deep sense of intellectual honesty.
Gorsuch could prove to be an original thinker with intellectual honesty. From what I have seen so far, I want to give him the opportunity. He is a very good choice.
The enemy of the Good is perfection. -Voltaire
To me there's something equally unnerving in the author's portrayal of Gorsuch and his obliviousness to the process of Q&A when it comes down to confirming a new SCOTUS.........
Ever since Bork, Supreme Court nominees are being more cautious with their responses to questions during the confirmation hearings, better to go by Goresuch actual record on the bench which has been solid. If Goresuch was really as bad as the article seems to suggests then Schumer wouldn’t be so desperately pushing to filibuster him. His rulings have been solid on issues like religious liberty among other things, and he’s certainly by far better than anyone Hillary would’ve nominated. Back in the days of his nomination proceedings, Scalia was able to speak more freely without having to worry as much about being Borked. So when comparing Scalia to Goresuch, a better gauge is his actual bench record.
Your excellent commentary and view of the situation is to be admired.
The Presidential debates presented a clear choice to the American people in regards to SCOTUS: platform activism versus constitutional adherence and the letter of the law.
This character assassination has nothing to do with Goresuch’s abilities to judge if a law is unconstitutional.
Alright, let me try this on you... Trump knows that Kennedy is going to pull the pin this summer. He now has replaced Kennedy with Gorsuch and saved his firepower for the real Scalia replacement when Kennedy retires. By then, the nuclear option will have been used on an obviously innocuous candidate so when they use it on the next candidate it won’t engender disfavor by the public at large.
We’ll see.
His leaving the Catholic Church for a left wing church is very troubling to me and I am an Agnostic
“...a socially liberal Episcopal church...”
As I said in another thread some days ago, that is pretty much a deal breaker for me, having “escaped” from that denomination fifteen years ago.
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