NPR Legal Reporter Criticizes Gorsuch for Citing the Constitution

The Stream ^ | 11/1/17 | Elizabeth Slattery

[ClearCase_guy]

Nina Totenberg is not really a journalist and not really a legal expert. She is simply a political Kommisar working to destroy America.

[simpson96]

Liberalism is a mental disorder.

[Dr. Sivana]

Totenberg also said she hears Gorsuch “doesn’t believe in precedent” — which is likely motivated by a concern that he would overturn cases liberals like if given the chance.

So, Nina, would you like to see Plessy vs. Ferguson remain the law of the land?

[Flintlock]

He simply QUOTES THE CONSTITUTION!!!

Whatta horror! Gee—the left doesn’t like a Trump appoint ee. Whooda thunk it??

[Eric in the Ozarks]

I laughed when I saw Nina T named as “legal reporter” at NPR.

[C210N]

Totenberg also said she hears Gorsuch “doesn’t believe in precedent” ...

Sure he does - the precedent formed from the Declaration, Constitution, and writings of the framers. Leftist "precedents" are rulings that overturn either the spirit or the letter of original precedent.

[RummyChick]

So what’s wrong with being an
originalist

We wanted someone like Scalia

[WKUHilltopper]

NPR is staffed by enemies of the Republic.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

She is simply a political Kommisar working to destroy America.

Exactly. She is a hack. She also seems to be experiencing some cognitive dissonance. Surely she must know or, at least, realize what the role of the USSC is and how closely it is tied to the Constitution.

Or, do I assume overmuch?

[polymuser]

Ninny Toetheline: “...and he doesn’t seem to bring anything new to the conversation.”

Enlightening statement — means he doesn’t want to ignore/overturn laws and votes, uses those old existing laws (like COTUS) to decide a case.

[DoodleBob]

Nina Totenberg is a plagiarist. The fact that she's a legal correspondent is laughable. That her employer is NPR is icing on the cake.

All #NeverTrumpers should explain how we'd be better off with a Hillary pick than Gorsuch. He continues to be impressive, and watching statists melt down in articles like this is an extra gift.

[Bookshelf]

Totenberg, Toobin and Greenhouse are predictable left-wing hacks. They have been writing their tiresome drivel for decades. Loved by the Left, they are the noxious weeds that inhabit the Swamp.

[alloysteel]

Of course, NPR would be of the opinion that THEIR favorite, Robert Mueller III, Special Counsel, deserves the adjectives of “an honorable, decent (and whip smart)” legal expert.

In fact the other set of adjectives, pedantic, boorish, juvenile, and annoying, probably DO apply to Special Counsel Mueller.

In many ways, almost the diametric opposite of Neil Gorsuch.

You got to understand, NPR people think they are always the smartest people in the room. Their sophistication knows no limits, not even as it relates to the least constraint on their free-ranging imaginative constructs.

[milagro]

Excellent point!

[NorthMountain]

“dominat[ing] oral arguments, when new Justices are expected to hang back”

I have always rejected that sort of stupidiy. He was appointed to do a job, not to 'hang back'.

[RummyChick]

Didnt they just fire someone because of sexual harrasment

[Moonman62]

said the new justice violated the court’s unwritten rules and norms and “morph[ed]… quickly into Donald Trump’s life-tenured judicial avatar.”

...

All we need is two or three more just like him.

[Prolixus]

NPR has always been bad but for some reason the last month or so they’ve really become unhinged. It seems to have occurred after a week or so of NPR news being more “fair and balanced.” ...maybe they’re afraid if they let the ship list even a little right it won’t stop until it’s full right.

[Lee'sGhost]

“...and I am not sure he’s as tough — or dare I say it, maybe not as smart.”

As Kagan?! Hahahahahaahhahahahaaha!!!!