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(53,342 posts)marybourg
(12,634 posts)and not another Scalia.
woolldog
(8,791 posts)Doesn't matter. Block the nomination.
marybourg
(12,634 posts)on the basis that the seat should be filled by a Democrat, since that's the party that was in office when the seat became vacant, and not even reach his particular qualifications.
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)rzemanfl
(29,567 posts)I would have appointed a certain African-American former President to the Supreme Court to sideline him.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)So he's likely the typical anti-choice, bigoted, corporate-loving gundamentalist you would expect that unholy trinity could agree upon.
Big Blue Marble
(5,146 posts)That tells you a lot.
Chipper Chat
(9,686 posts)who was touted as very right-wing but turned out to be not so.
tgards79
(1,415 posts)We need to fight this one. He is a Scalia protege.
Chipper Chat
(9,686 posts)Let's see if Mitchie wants him confirmed so badly he'll change the rules.
WillowTree
(5,325 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)Rustyeye77
(2,736 posts)Fuck him.
Frogg
(365 posts)Gorsuch has never openly declared he is pro-life or choice but his record does have somevery concerning aspects regarding women and he is very conservative. Look for the silver lining! Read about Pryor! The repugs were pushing for him to receive the rose...that would have been catacylismic!
oberliner
(58,724 posts)And then it is all over.
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)Amishman
(5,559 posts)Pryor is a monster. Gorsuch is merely bad.
Vanilla deep conservative. Unfortunate but not apocalyptic. The tiny upside is his tendency to read laws and write rulings narrowly. Makes it harder to use rulings later on other matters.
mvd
(65,180 posts)Maybe more mild mannered, but a mild mannered Scalia type is still writing bad opinions.
Montauk6
(8,079 posts)August 4, 2016 (Fault Lines) A 13-year-old middle school student in Albuquerque was arrested, suspended from school, and taken to juvie for being a class clown: burping and laughing in class in violation of New Mexicos school disruption laws. When his parents sued the school and police for false arrest and violation of his constitutional rights, the federal courts were forced to side with officials and acknowledge their qualified immunity, as the arrest was legal, despite its pettiness
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That this was a kid doing something childish wasnt lost on Judge Neil Gorsuch in dissent:
If a seventh grader starts trading fake burps for laughs in gym class, whats a teacher to do? Order extra laps? Detention? A trip to the principals office? Maybe. But then again, maybe thats too old school. Maybe today you call a police officer. And maybe today the officer decides that, instead of just escorting the now compliant thirteen year old to the principals office, an arrest would be a better idea. So out come the handcuffs and off goes the child to juvenile detention. My colleagues suggest the law permits exactly this option and they offer ninety-four pages explaining why they think thats so. Respectfully, I remain unpersuaded.
From: http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/joanne-thu-policing-our-schools-kid-arrested-for-burping-in-class/11873
TrekLuver
(2,573 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)I don't care how good he is, the decision to deny Obama's nominee a vote means we should keep "our" seat open. If there is another opening then we go back to the old way on that one.
marlakay
(11,484 posts)that they didn't think he would overthrow Roe because he doesn't like to overthrow things already set up.
But he is religious and pro life and if anything religious came up, like Holly Hobby case he voted against the employees wanting birth control paid for by Obamacare.
Jimbo101
(776 posts)1. He's a former classmate of Barack Obama.
2. His mother ran the EPA.
3. He is an opponent of assisted suicide and euthanasia
4. He has not yet ruled on abortion, but is likely against it.
5. He has supported term limits for Supreme Court justices
alarimer
(16,245 posts)Had to resign because of scandal that I can't recall at the moment.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)From the New York TImes
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)Scalia is much too far from end of the right arrow
Just because he wasn't an avowed fascist doesn't mean he wasn't radical right
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Lee Epstein is the Ethan A.H. Shepley Distinguished University Professor at Washington University in St. Louis; Andrew D. Martin is the Dean of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts and Professor of Political Science and Statistics at the University of Michigan; Kevin Quinn is Professor of Law at the University of California-Berkeley. We thank the National Science Foundation for supporting our work on the U.S. Supreme Court. Data and documentation for this analysis are at: http://epstein.wustl.edu/ research/PossibleTrumpJustices.html
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)The detail is mostly about new nominees, or possible ones. The single case cutline for existing justices can't be what they really did and Scalia is WAY to the right of Roberts & Alito
So, Gorsuch aside, the chart makes no sense so I don't really know where this guy lines up
frazzled
(18,402 posts)this nominee founded and ran a "Fascism Forever" club? With all due apologies, I'll trust the Times before your opinion on the subject.
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)So, you believe that since one guy acknowledges being in a fascist organization doesn't mean Scalia was not a fascist. He's way too far from Thomas and way too close to Robers and Alito on that scale. He's FAR right demagogue and if you put Thomas to the right of Gorsuch, then Scalia belongs there too.
And, i'm not really shattered. I'm completely comfortable in my opinion on Scalia, and completely comfortable in knowing you're wrong.
FarPoint
(12,432 posts)So BLOCK this Nomination...I want Garland .He was our and was stolen.
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)PhD from Oxford. Still, after what happened to Garland, I expect the senate to roast him.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)so honestly I'm a tiny bit relieved.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)So it's hard to imagine he's too far out there, or President Obama himself needs to take some blame for advancing the guy's career.
mvd
(65,180 posts)Perhaps he was worse than expected then.
politicat
(9,808 posts)Because even the originals weren't originalists, else they wouldn't have written a procedure for amending the Constitution.
I wish these originalists would just go get a suit of 18th c clothing, pick up a black powder rifle and an iron pot, and go play with the other re-enactors. Get it out of their systems instead of inflicting it on the rest of us.
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malaise
(269,157 posts)and a decision re a young man killed by a police taser - one more heartless MF
csziggy
(34,137 posts)It's not even worth quoting from the article - the title says it all.