So how bad is Gorsuch?

[brettdale]

Whats his MO?

[Roland99]

1. Seems he could be worse

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/who-is-neil-gorsuch-bio-facts-background-political-views-234437

[marybourg]

2. NPR says well liked and respected

and not another Scalia.

[woolldog]

15. So was Garland.

Doesn't matter. Block the nomination.

[marybourg]

21. Yes. I think it should be blocked

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]

3. ...

Link to tweet

[rzemanfl]

4. If I were Trump and could resist the temptation to kill myself for the good of mankind,

I would have appointed a certain African-American former President to the Supreme Court to sideline him.

[LonePirate]

5. I'm guessing Pence picked him with input from Bannon and Miller.

So he's likely the typical anti-choice, bigoted, corporate-loving gundamentalist you would expect that unholy trinity could agree upon.

[Big Blue Marble]

12. Heritage recommendation.

That tells you a lot.

[Chipper Chat]

6. I hope he turns out to be another Souter

who was touted as very right-wing but turned out to be not so.

[tgards79]

7. There is no way that will happen

We need to fight this one. He is a Scalia protege.

[Chipper Chat]

10. It's all up to McTurtle.

Let's see if Mitchie wants him confirmed so badly he'll change the rules.

[WillowTree]

26. I'd say count on it.

[shenmue]

9. I had a huge crush on Souter

[Rustyeye77]

8. The guy is a Neanderthal.

Fuck him.

[Frogg]

11. Could have been much much worse...Pryor, nut-cake right wing sludge pile

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]

13. Pryor will be next

And then it is all over.

[TrekLuver]

18. Yes this is the strategy.

[Amishman]

35. Pryor would have been the fucking end, this is still awful given who should be there instead

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]

14. I trust that with the Con picking, there is nothing good here

Maybe more mild mannered, but a mild mannered Scalia type is still writing bad opinions.

[Montauk6]

16. He made a rational dissent in a burping case

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 Mexico’s 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 wasn’t lost on Judge Neil Gorsuch in dissent:

If a seventh grader starts trading fake burps for laughs in gym class, what’s a teacher to do? Order extra laps? Detention? A trip to the principal’s office? Maybe. But then again, maybe that’s 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 principal’s 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 that’s so. Respectfully, I remain unpersuaded.

From: http://mimesislaw.com/fault-lines/joanne-thu-policing-our-schools-kid-arrested-for-burping-in-class/11873

[TrekLuver]

19. lol burping case

[jmg257]

17. CNN saying he's a great pick. nt

[hollowdweller]

20. I say block him but vote for him if there is another opening.

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]

22. TYT just said his worst thing is that he is pro Corporations

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]

23. Few facts from an article at RS

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/neil-gorsuch-facts-and-political-views/

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]

34. She was the most corrupt EPA admin ever

Had to resign because of scandal that I can't recall at the moment.

[frazzled]

24. A picture is worth a thousand words

From the New York TImes

[ProfessorGAC]

25. I Question That Graphic

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]

28. They constructed it from this academic study

http://pdfserver.amlaw.com/nlj/PresNominees2.pdf

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]

38. After Reading It, I Stand By What I Said

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]

41. Even after you know that ...

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]

43. I'm Shattered

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]

27. He was in Support of Hobby Lobby.

So BLOCK this Nomination...I want Garland .He was our and was stolen.

[uponit7771]

40. +1

[LittleBlue]

29. I was hoping he wouldn't nominate this guy. Only 49 and a

PhD from Oxford. Still, after what happened to Garland, I expect the senate to roast him.

[Warren DeMontague]

30. I expected it to be Pryor

so honestly I'm a tiny bit relieved.

[KittyWampus]

32. Me too.

[MadDAsHell]

31. He had a lot of Democratic support when confirmed in 2006, including from Senator Obama.

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]

33. Pelosi called him a "hostile appointment" and "outside the mainstream"

Perhaps he was worse than expected then.

[politicat]

36. He's an originalist, so the judicial version of LARPing Act 2 of Hamilton, w/o the good parts.

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.

[malaise]

39. Hobby Lobby

and a decision re a young man killed by a police taser - one more heartless MF

[csziggy]

42. He started a Fascist Forever club as a teenager

http://nypost.com/2017/02/02/neil-gorsuch-started-fascism-forever-club-in-high-school/

It's not even worth quoting from the article - the title says it all.