Gorsuch's mother tried to dismantle the EPA under Ronald Reagan

[kskiska]

Remember that time when Neil Gorsuch’s mother tried to dismantle the EPA?

Anne Gorsuch—whose son has just been nominated by President Trump for the Supreme Court—was administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency from 1981 to 1983, under Ronald Reagan. And much like Scott Pruitt, Trump’s EPA nominee, she wanted to rip the agency apart.

Anne Gorsuch slashed EPA’s budget by 22 percent and aggressively rolled back clean air and clean water rules and other protections. A lawyer herself, she apparently did not like to see the legal system used to protect the environment: “In the first year of the Reagan administration, there was a 79 percent decline in the number of enforcement cases filed from regional offices to EPA headquarters, and a 69 percent decline in the number of cases filed from the EPA to the Department of Justice,” a House staffer told Grist in 2004. Anne Gorsuch resigned less than two years into the job over a scandal involving mismanagement of the Superfund program.

Like mother, like son? During his decade as a federal appeals court judge, Neil Gorsuch has not ruled on notable environmental cases, so he doesn’t have much of a track record to assess. He is a staunch conservative like his mom, though, and that’s enough to have environmentalists very worried.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/climate_desk/2017/01/neil_gorsuch_s_mother_anne_tried_to_dismantle_the_epa.html

[guillaumeb]

1. Anne Gorusch had a record of.......well..........

Her major undoing was a fight with Congress over documents concerning the agency's use of the $1.6-billion Superfund, which was established to clean up toxic waste dumps across the nation, including the large Stringfellow Acid Pits near Riverside.
In December 1982, she refused to give Congress the EPA documents detailing the agency's use of the Superfund.
Her refusal to comply came on the orders of the president under his declaration of executive privilege.
The conflict between Burford and Congress, which provoked the House to cite her for contempt of Congress, escalated to where at least six House subcommittees and one Senate committee began investigating the agency amid charges of "sweetheart deals" with industrial polluters and political manipulation of the Superfund program.

http://articles.latimes.com/2004/jul/22/local/me-burford22

One hopes her son did not learn about ethics from his mother.

[octoberlib]

5. Check out this quote from Kissinger in his yearbook photo

Link to tweet

[guillaumeb]

6. In a perfect world Kissinger would be serving a life sentence

for war crimes instead of being honored as a political genius.

[roamer65]

2. I wondered if he was Anne Gorsuch's kid. Ugh.

That's. Explains a lot. Anne Gorsuch and James Watt did immense damage to our environment.

[hollowdweller]

4. More nepotisim

Mc Connells wife, his son in law, is this draining the swamp?

[GoCubsGo]

3. I knew that name sounded familiar.

Dems had better block this asshole.

[dalton99a]

7. Yeah, but that was a long time ago. And her son went to Harvard!!!