Justice Neil Gorsuch: Americans are 'getting whacked' by too many laws

[erronis]

Source: The Guardian

US supreme court justice Neil Gorsuch has said ordinary Americans are “getting whacked” by too many laws and regulations in a new book that underscores his skepticism of federal agencies and the power they wield.

“Too little law and we’re not safe, and our liberties aren’t protected,” Gorsuch told the Associated Press in an interview in his supreme court office. “But too much law and you actually impair those same things.”

Over Ruled: The Human Toll of Too Much Law is being published Tuesday by Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers. Gorsuch has received a $500,000 advance for the book, according to his annual financial disclosure reports.

In the interview, Gorsuch refused to be drawn into discussions about term limits or an enforceable code of ethics for the justices, both recently proposed by Joe Biden at a time of diminished public trust in the court.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/04/supreme-court-justice-neil-gorsuch

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But Gorsuch did talk about the importance of judicial independence. “I’m not saying that there aren’t ways to improve what we have. I’m simply saying that we’ve been given something very special. It’s the envy of the world, the United States judiciary,” he said.

I think he was using the royal "We" and talking about his RW partners on the Court.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. How in the f**king hell would you know? You work in the ivory tower, and if anything, you probably read several

papers a day, and that's it. As to the law and all that's going on...I say that the legislators and elected officials on the front lines, as well as the attorneys working the front lines too, know far more than you POS.

And by the way, with the way you all whacked Roe, said that it was, after being the law of the land for so long, invalid, you caused each and every territory in the US to have to examine the laws on their books, perhaps write and enact more laws, from 1 thing you did.

Happy? Scumbag. Can't admit any responsibility for the mess you all made.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. Gorsuch forgets his job -- he is supposed to be a judge, not a legislator.

It's not his job to create an arbitrary limit to the number of laws. He is part of the Subversive Six intent on subverting the rule of law to fit their extreme ideology.

[plimsoll]

31. Hacks in Black

eom

[Lasher]

44. Remember all the complaints about Judicial Activism?

We don't see that particular label bantered about any more, do we?

[travelingthrulife]

55. Everything they do or say is projection

So Gorsuch wants more latitude to crime in peace.

[bluestarone]

57. EXACTLY!!

Does he think he's getting promoted?

[unblock]

3. Europe generally has more regulations and the people generally support that and are generally happier

In theory, sure, a country could over-regulate.

But there's no compelling evidence to support that that's going on in America. If anything, our regulations are too lax.

[Midnight Writer]

4. Yet when women are threatened by "too much law" denying them healthcare

Gorsuch goes all in.

I reckon it doesn't cross his mind that laws controlling the lives of women count as "too much law".

[Autumn]

5. Fuck that SOB. When they wipe out laws protecting women reproductive rights that fucker

should shut the fuck up with his whining. Fuck him and his United States judiciary

[Blue Dotty]

6. Americans getting whacked by the rogue Court

[Blue Owl]

7. We're getting whacked by a Supreme Court with 3 judges appointed by a convicted felon

[wolfie001]

8. Of course this nat-zee pig is referring to Labor Laws. Child Labor Laws as well

Corporate trough-feeding oinker. Also, letting the Orange Obese Oaf do whatever the f6ck he wants.

[BaronChocula]

9. What the fuck is he talking about

I don't think he's talking about dumping motor oil down the storm drain because I don't see him as being that domestically adept. So he must be complaining about those pesky laws requiring privileged appointees to report of gifts. Or maybe he's still sore about Mommy being the first U.S. agency head to be held in contempt of Congress. Fuckin' baby.

[Blues Heron]

10. what a weirdo - its not the number of laws, its the inherent fairness or lack thereof that is the problem

I wonder if he thinks the weight of law should be measured in kilograms

[CousinIT]

11. Especially if you have a uterus. N/t

[Karma13612]

20. Thank you!

I noticed many posts were about the SCOTUS not liking laws about themselves. I can see how Neil would be chaffing at laws that affect them.

But, he really can’t see that their decisions are creating hundreds of laws restricting women’s reproductive rights.

They are souless monsters.

[dalton99a]

24. +1

[S/V Loner]

12. So get rid of bribery laws and...

fix them by calling them gratuities only the SC decides which is which. We know how that will work Asshole.

[Hieronymus Phact]

13. so this is why

He needed to relieve one person of the burden of following any laws.

[Marcuse]

14. Too many laws

[Bozvotros]

15. Why is this news?

We always knew you could train seals to bark on command.

[Evolve Dammit]

16. Has this asshole ever had any actual work experience? Like real work. I sincerely doubt it. Alito? Clarence?

[Evolve Dammit]

17. Beer boy??

[Dem2theMax]

18. Let me fix the headline.

Americans are getting whacked by corrupt Supreme Court Justices.

[Karma13612]

19. Oh! You mean like

Laws against women getting needed OB GYN care?

You walked right into that one, Neil!

Flippin’ fascist fckhead SOB

[NYC Liberal]

21. Google his mother, Anne M. Gorsuch, and this will all make sense.

Gorsuch based her administration of the EPA on the New Federalism approach of downsizing federal agencies by delegating their functions and services to the individual states. She believed that the EPA was over-regulating business and that the agency was too large and not cost-effective. During her 22 months as agency head, she cut the budget of the EPA by 22%, reduced the number of cases filed against polluters, relaxed Clean Air Act regulations, and facilitated the spraying of restricted-use pesticides. She cut the total number of agency employees, and hired staff from the industries they were supposed to be regulating. Environmentalists contended that her policies were designed to placate polluters, and accused her of trying to dismantle the agency. It was reported in 1982 that the EPA was disregarding management of toxic landfills, citing costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Gorsuch_Burford

[erronis]

23. Thanks for this reminder. Corruption and self-serving seems to run in those types of families.

[andym]

35. Gorsuch's mother resigned in a scandal over denying EPA funds for political purposes

From the same Wikipedia article
Superfund
In 1982, Congress charged that the EPA had mishandled the $1.6 billion toxic waste Superfund by taking certain inappropriate and potentially illegal actions including withholding disbursements in order to affect a California political campaign. When Congress demanded records from Gorsuch, she refused and as a result became the first agency director in U.S. history to be cited for contempt of Congress.[8][9]

Hugh Kaufman, an EPA employee, leaked documents to Congress.[10][11]

The stand-off ended in late February 1983, when Richard Hauser, the White House deputy counsel, confirmed one or more Reagan Administration officials had in fact reported to the White House that they had heard Gorsuch say at an August 4, 1982, luncheon that she was holding back more than $6 million in Federal funds to clean up the Stringfellow Acid Pits toxic waste site near Los Angeles to avoid helping the Senate campaign of former Gov. Jerry Brown of California, a Democrat.[12]

The White House then abandoned its court claim that the documents related to this incident could not be subpoenaed by Congress because they were covered by executive privilege and the EPA turned the documents over to Congress. Gorsuch immediately resigned her post effective March 3, 1983, citing pressures caused by the media and the congressional investigation.

[dameatball]

48. Thank you for providing that.

[jvill]

22. That's. Not. Your. Job. You. Corrupt. A. Hole.

...

[Rebl2]

25. No we

the American people are being whacked by right wing Supreme Court judges!

[Talitha]

26. "whacked" - - sweet baby jeebus, he sounds like a mobster.

[Mz Pip]

27. He's right

But we disagree on what laws.

He’s fine on all the laws that are being made to control women. I am not.

[niyad]

28. Pretty syre he is NOT referring to the dozens/hundreds of laws now on the

books, and in the works, restricting women from full autonomy.

FUCK YOU, YOU LYING, HYPOCRITICAL, MISOGYNISTIC WASTE OF OXYGEN.

[Scrivener7]

29. What an asshole.

[Martin68]

30. No, Neil, Americans are getting whacked by rulings by corrupt Supreme Court Justices like you.

Why would a judge complain about "too many laws?" Their job is to rule on the applicability of law to a particular case, or the constitutionality of a law. Their job does not include judgment on the number of laws. Gorsuch is a prefect example of why we need to remind SCOTUS of what their job is, what their job is not, and what constituter a breach of ethics.

[PortTack]

32. Oh...you mean like your friend from hobby lobby who got "whacked" for stealing antiquities from another country?

[Baitball Blogger]

33. Lawmaking isn't part of your job, Gorsuch.

If he thinks that it's his job to kill the bills that Congress passes, I would have to say I found the flaw in the process.

[NNadir]

34. Why should this political hack give a shit? He has no respect for the law or the Constitution as he makes clear.

[AZ8theist]

36. Translation:

Our (the Supreme Court) billionaire owners don't like regs stopping us from shitting on everyone and everything while making gobs of money.

[Tweedy]

39. They want that sweet sweet

Baksheesh …. I mean “gratuities “

[bhikkhu]

37. What we are really getting "whacked" by is too little enforcement

When we see people in power obviously and carelessly breaking the law and then nothing happens - that causes real problems.

[Tweedy]

38. The man didn't care about the facts

Or the law when deciding the presidential immunity case.

He has lost any right to the benefit of the doubt.

He is another weird one. Still carrying a grudge that Congress tried to make his mother as EPA director actually follow the law that President Nixon proposed. Oh! The horror! Who wears a chip on their shoulder forever when their forbear was in the wrong? Why, a modern day MAGA follower that is who.

We should all thank Joe Biden for keeping this weird controlling creeps back for a bit. Imagine how bad it would be now if Mr. Bork, the weirdo’s weirdo, had gotten on our court back in the ‘80’s!

[calimary]

40. Well, okay then! Too many laws, you say? Well, hey! Here's an idea: how 'bout we try anarchy for awhile!

You interested, Mr. Associate Justice? Let's not have ANY laws then, right? Which would immediately make me wonder why we even need YOU around, then. And that also goes for your Republican friends and associates who never want to be held to any rules, never saw a rule they didn't want to break, never saw a guardrail they didn't want to weasel around, never saw a goal they weren't at least tempted to try to cheat to win.

Gee, as you can probably guess, I hold these folks, AND especially guys like Gorsuch, in the absolute first-class bar-none utmost of "esteem."

[bmichaelh]

41. Electoral College

Envy of the world? Not quite

The only reason you are on the Supreme Court is because US has a system that no other country has ... Electoral College.

Trump did not beat Clinton in the popular vote.

No other country is amending their constitution to enact Electoral Colleges or Judges with lifetime tenure.

[Grins]

42. "... Gorsuch has received a $500,000 advance."

Thanks, Leo!!

What Reich-wing publisher is going to do the dirty…?

[Skittles]

43. that guy truly needs to go FUCK HIMSELF

he shouldn't even BE THERE, Dems were ROBBED

[BlueWavePsych]

45. SCROTUS the MAGAt

[bucolic_frolic]

46. This guy is one of the most pompous asses in public life

It's all about deregulation, plundering the environment for Republican profit. Like his mom.

[Kid Berwyn]

47. Freedom to Pollute the Air, Water, Land and Food

Neil Gorsuch: Go to Hell.

[Bengus81]

49. That ass hat is talking more about those "pesky" regulations that effect millionaires/billionaires than laws

Let the Koch pollute all they want,drop those fuel standards on cars,get rid of the EPA,OSHA,minimum wage, all labor laws etc....

But no...we need laws that have kept people caught with some weed and other petty shit behind bars for years and years. Keeps em off those voting rolls.

[poozwah]

50. huh?

justice yoursuchadick is whacked.

[MayReasonRule]

51. Gorsuch Is Spewing Diahriffic Shit Out Of HIs Fascist Ass

Here's to Kamala's election as POTUS!

Here's to flushing the fascist turds out of the system and out of our nation!

Here's to reason's rule!

[Kahuna]

52. How very Project 2025 of him.

[ck4829]

53. Oh really?

[Mysterian]

54. Gorsuch is a crazed fascist who never should have been appointed

Every word that comes out of his filthy mouth is lies and trash.

[BigDemVoter]

56. F**K Him.

[Mysterian]

58. Too many crooked judges is our real problem....

but thanks for chiming in, Mr. Helper!

[republianmushroom]

59. NO ! , Justice Neil Gorsuch it is not the laws that is "whacking" the American people,

it is Sh*t like this that is whacking the people... it is the unethical and crooked Supreme Court,

"Justice Clarence Thomas failed to publicly disclose additional private travel provided by the wealthy conservative donor Harlan Crow, a top Democratic senator said in a letter on Monday.

Customs and Border Protection records revealed that the justice and his wife, Virginia Thomas, took a round trip between Hawaii and New Zealand in November 2010 on Mr. Crow’s private jet, according to the letter. Senator Ron Wyden, Democrat of Oregon, writing to Mr. Crow’s lawyer, demanded that he supply more information about the financial relationship between the two men."...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/05/us/politics/clarence-thomas-harlan-crow-private-jet.html

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100219287736

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

60. Says the asshole who wants to take away women's bodily autonomy

[orthoclad]

61. "whacked" is a mob word

wonder where he picked it up

[Mysterian]

62. Yeah, who needs all those pesky laws!?

What we really need is a corrupt, unelected panel of "justices" simply RULING BY DECREE! Isn't that right, Neil?

[Mysterian]

63. Funny how the first ones to squeal about too many laws

are crooked cretins like Gorsuch when there's talk of making the rules apply to HIM.

[Carlitos Brigante]

64. "But not the abortion ones.... Those are totally fine...". Which once again proves how

inconsistent and unethical these assholes are. They're not judges. They're politicians.