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Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court

danarhea said:
Republicans went nuclear, and now Gorsuch is a SCOTUS justice.

I have always supported Conservative justices, and with the exception of Harriet Meyers, I was OK with all of Bush's appointments. The issue to me is that Gorsuch is unqualified. Yes, he is brilliant, but tends to take the wording of laws out of context to support corporate values over those of ordinary Americans. The Frozen Trucker case stands out, but there is another decision he made that cemented my opposition to him. That was his ruling that schools could warehouse special needs children instead of teaching them. This decision was overruled this week by SCOTUS 8-0.

Again, a brilliant mind, but a crooked mind too. This was one of the poorest confirmations in US history, and it took the nuclear option to put him on the bench. That will have dire consequences in the future for the Senate. Just wait until the Democrats regain power there (I think in 2020). For all intents and purposes, the filibuster is about to become the dodo bird.

Neil Gorsuch confirmed to the Supreme Court - CNNPolitics.com
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As he said, if you like every decision you make, you're a bad judge. His job is to interpret the law, not write it. That's why we have Congress.

As for the Harry Reid Option, this is great. It means the next justices can be in the Scalia mode too, and get confirmed with nary a problem.

It'll be fun watching the Leftists heads explode. After 8-years of Trump, we'll have a sane court with a couple court jesters appointed by Obama.
 
zimmer said:
As he said, if you like every decision you make, you're a bad judge. His job is to interpret the law, not write it. That's why we have Congress.

As for the Harry Reid Option, this is great. It means the next justices can be in the Scalia mode too, and get confirmed with nary a problem.

It'll be fun watching the Leftists heads explode. After 8-years of Trump, we'll have a sane court with a couple court jesters appointed by Obama.
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We need a court with 9 operational justices. Right now we have about four or five. What I mean by operational is a justice that, as Scalia used to say, looks to the Constitution and the law to guide his decision, even if it is something they personally disagree with. Abortion, for example, is not mentioned as a something the federal government should be involved with. The federal government has not passed a law outlawing abortion. A justice may believe one way or the other on abortion, but should know that the federal government should not make a decision on it.
 
Deuce said:
So, you agree then Trump was wrong in 2013. Got it.
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What I said was: "I really don't care what Trump said in 2013. I care about what he does or says as president."
 
Absentglare said:
I am quite aware that your remark was plainly ignorant and infantile. Your confessed anti-democrat prejudice lacks elements of critical thinking.
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Yours lacks reality, so there ya go.
 
OpportunityCost said:
No SCOTUS nominee has ever been blocked by filibuster. Nominees have been stuck in committee before.
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Yes, exactly. Shouting UNPRECEDENTED UNPRECEDENTED over and over is deceptive, because numerous nominees have been blocked without getting this "straight up or down vote" that the right-wing talking heads are pretending was so important to them.

What was the vote count on Garland, again?
 
ObamacareFail said:
What I said was: "I really don't care what Trump said in 2013. I care about what he does or says as president."
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You can not care what he said and also admit he was wrong. But you're not willing to admit that, for some reason.
 
Deuce said:
Yes, exactly. Shouting UNPRECEDENTED UNPRECEDENTED over and over is deceptive, because numerous nominees have been blocked without getting this "straight up or down vote" that the right-wing talking heads are pretending was so important to them.

What was the vote count on Garland, again?
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Stuck in committee, which has happened before.
 
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