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Offline EasyAce

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Another Justice Like Gorsuch, Please
« on: July 09, 2018, 02:06:58 pm »
Contrary to what his critics say, this "narrow-minded elitist" stands up for the little guy.
By Jacob Sullum
http://reason.com/archives/2018/07/04/another-justice-like-gorsuch-please

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"We have to STOP the next Trump nominee!" says a pop-up solicitation on People for the American Way's website. Before you rush to "donate now," you might want to consider the organization's assessment of Trump's last Supreme Court nominee.

"Far from being a fair-minded constitutionalist," PFAW says, Neil Gorsuch "has proven to be a narrow-minded elitist who consistently votes in favor of corporations and the powerful." The gap between that description and Gorsuch's actual performance on the Court speaks volumes about the blind partisanship of Trump critics who care more about scoring political points than defending civil liberties.

PFAW is echoing the criticism of Democratic senators who worried, before Gorsuch was confirmed in April 2017, that he was not inclined to stand up for "the little guy." Gorsuch's record during a decade on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit belied that claim, and his 15 months on the Supreme Court provide further evidence that he is not shy about defending the principles that protect politically disfavored individuals from the whims of the powerful.

In sharp contrast with the man who nominated him, Gorsuch worries about abuses of the government's power to take people's property "for public use." In June 2017, when the Court declined to hear a case that raised the question of whether a state can impose limits on the "just compensation" it owes for takings under the Fifth Amendment, Gorsuch, joined by Clarence Thomas, urged his colleagues to address that issue at the "next opportunity" . . .
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Re: Another Justice Like Gorsuch, Please
« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2018, 02:20:56 pm »
 :amen: @EasyAce  :amen:
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Re: Another Justice Like Gorsuch, Please
« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2018, 02:46:22 pm »
According to Judge Napolitano as interviewed on Fox News, he thinks the choice has been narrowed down to Kethledge and Hardiman,  largely because of confirmability issues.   Mitch McConnell apparently believes that both Kavanaugh and Barrett would have significant problems being confirmed; the former because of his ties to the Bushes and the latter because her pro-life Catholicism.   
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