At conservative conference, Neil Gorsuch cracks joke about frozen trucker nearly left to die
During Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court seat Senate Republicans held open for a year until Donald Trump could fill it, the judge was dogged by questions about a case in which he voted against a trucker who nearly froze to death in a broken down truck. Thursday evening, Gorsuch turned this case into a punchline.
The case involved Alphonse Maddin, who was driving in subzero temperatures when the brakes on his trailer froze. Maddin waited hours for assistance, but none came. Finally, after he began to show symptoms of hypothermia, he unhitched the trailer — despite instructions from a supervisor not to do so — and left seeking help. He was later fired for “violating company policy by abandoning his load while under dispatch.”
The case eventually reached a three-judge panel that included Gorsuch. Gorsuch’s two colleagues sided with Maddin in his suit against his former employer. Gorsuch sided against Maddin.
In his dissenting opinion, Gorsuch suggested this was an easy case. The relevant federal law permitted truckers in a situation like Maddin’s to “refuse to operate” their truck out of safety concerns. Gorsuch claimed that Maddin was fired for operating his truck — when he disconnected the trailer and left to get help. “It might be fair to ask whether TransAm’s decision was a wise or kind one,” Gorsuch lectured his two colleagues. “But it’s not our job to answer questions like that.”
https://thinkprogress.org/at-conservative-conference-neil-gorsuch-cracks-joke-about-frozen-trucker-nearly-left-to-die-e4b5fc0e4f5f/
Hey Gorsuch, you should be IMPEACHED
Your not a legitimate justice, or did you forget how you were crowned..................ask Grassley and McConnell and the other republicans, since they have decided to tear up the Constitution
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and this jerk still thinks that his "joke" about what he almost committed was funny, and the "federalist" jerks laughed.
Empathy------------------they (federalist) and this illegitimate jerk have none
