Posted on 06/27/2017 8:34:01 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Justice Neil Gorsuch has been on the Supreme Court for only a couple of months, but he's already made his mark as a strong conservative voice.
Gorsuch asserted himself in writing concurring and dissenting opinions, aligning himself most frequently with Justice Clarence Thomas and positioning himself to the right of Chief Justice John Roberts.
"The guy's not afraid to write," said Josh Blackman, an associate professor at South Texas College of Law. "He's not afraid to assert himself."
Confirmed to the court in April, Justice Gorsuch participated in only a small fraction of the cases this year. But in a year that lacked big-name rulings, his ascendance was the biggest story of the court's term. He is already cutting an outsized figure by asking his fair share of questions and taking stances that suggest he will carve out his own jurisprudence on the high court.
In one brief dissent Monday, he chided his colleagues for moving quickly to overturn an Arkansas law refusing to list the name of a same-sex partner when a child is conceived through artificial insemination. He said the court should have at least heard the state's justifications.
In another dissent, Justice Gorsuch complained of the court's timidity in defending religious freedoms. The court ruled that a Missouri church couldn't be barred from receiving government money under a program designed to improve playgrounds.
Justice Gorsuch, though, said the court was creating bizarre distinctions suggesting there is a difference between "religious status and religious use" when it comes to church and state interactions.
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Which is why I will always find Trump the best President in history. Trump does not negotiate with Democrats like Reagan did too many times giving us Kennedy and O’Connor. Trump is 100 million times better then even Reagan. Trump won’t sell us out on immigration like Reagan did either. Trump is the best President ever. Might even be heads above Washington. God bless this great man. We have a chance to put another 4 Supremes on the Court from Trump himself. Lord I am so glad I voted for him.
If President Trump places four justices like Gorsuch on the court he will go down in history as one of the best.
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