New SCOTUS Nominee

[The Reaper]

Looks like it is Gorsuch.

Time to do some research, but he is saying the right words so far.

TR

[tonyz]

SCOTUS blog has a write up.

Judge Neil Gorsuch – Colorado native and Washington, D.C., veteran

http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/01/ju...n-d-c-insider/

[Flagg]

Originally Posted by The Reaper

Looks like it is Gorsuch.

Time to do some research, but he is saying the right words so far.

TR

I don't know a thing about that fella(too busy to get on top of everything), hopefully the feedback here is positive.

I'm just eternally grateful that it is not Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders selecting the Supreme Court nominees.

Even if that's the only thing achieved in the next 4 years, it could be the difference between holding the free world together and a less positive alternative.

[Flagg]

Originally Posted by tonyz

SCOTUS blog has a write up.

Judge Neil Gorsuch – Colorado native and Washington, D.C., veteran

http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/01/ju...n-d-c-insider/

He's a young fella!

Justices Ginsburg and Kennedy are next. Insurance actuaries would safely see them replaced in this new term.

[Joker]

Originally Posted by Flagg

He's a young fella!

Justices Ginsburg and Kennedy are next. Insurance actuaries would safely see them replaced in this new term.

She'll be 84 next month and he is 80...

[CAARNG 68W]

Originally Posted by tonyz

SCOTUS blog has a write up.

Judge Neil Gorsuch – Colorado native and Washington, D.C., veteran

http://www.scotusblog.com/2017/01/ju...n-d-c-insider/

veteran

Huh?

[abc_123]

So the conservative trifecta would be this nominee be confirmed, justice ginsburg checks out, and justice Kennedy retires before trump leaves office.

[tonyz]

Originally Posted by CAARNG 68W

Huh?

D.C. veteran...as in experienced the swamp at an early age...read the blog.

"President Ronald Reagan’s choice of Gorsuch’s mother, Anne Gorsuch Burford, to head the Environmental Protection Agency in 1981 brought the Denver teenager to Washington, where he attended Bethesda’s Georgetown Preparatory School and won a national debate championship."

"Gorsuch began his legal career in the early 1990s with a series of prestigious clerkships – for Judge David Sentelle of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and on the U.S. Supreme Court for retired Justice Byron White, who shared him with Justice Anthony Kennedy. If nominated and confirmed, Gorsuch would be the first former law clerk to serve on the bench alongside his or her old boss."

[bblhead672]

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...l-views-234437

"He attended Harvard Law with former President Barack Obama. On Tuesday, Obama's former ethics czar, Norm Eisen, another classmate, tweeted: "Hearing rumors Trump's likely Supreme Court pick is Neil Gorsuch, my (and President Obama's!) 1991 Harvard Law classmate.If so, a great guy!""

Pausing to contemplate that Judge Gorsuch was classmate of Obama and praised by another classmate who worked in Obama administration.

[Roguish Lawyer]

The General Counsel's office of the Great Right-Wing Conspiracy has signed off.

[nousdefions]

The louder the looney left screams, the better the pick becomes.

[bblhead672]

Originally Posted by Brush Okie

It is funny how they were class mates yet come out with opposite points of view on this country and the legalities.

Upon review of the left's hysteria and exploding heads I feel he must be a good nominee! If Pelosi thinks he's satan then he must be a solid pick.

[rubberneck]

Originally Posted by Brush Okie

It is funny how they were class mates yet come out with opposite points of view on this country and the legalities.

Or how one tried to destroy America as we know it, while the other will act to restore it.

[atticus finch]

http://www.americanthinker.com/artic...r_concern.html


From the article:


" On the other hand, there is reason for pause with Judge Gorsuch's record. Judge Gorsuch joined in one opinion, United States v. Rodriguez, 739 F.3d 481 (11th Cir. 2013), which causes us to have some concern about his understanding of the relationship between the government and an armed citizenry. To be fair, Judge Gorsuch did not write the Rodriguez opinion – his colleague, Judge Bobby Baldock, was the author. Nevertheless, Judge Gorsuch joined the opinion. He could have filed a principled dissenting opinion, or even a concurring opinion agreeing only in the judgment.

The facts of the case are these. A New Mexico policeman observed Mr. Rodriguez, a convenience store clerk, carrying a concealed handgun. Carrying a concealed loaded handgun is illegal in New Mexico without a permit but legal if one has a license to do so. The officer, upon seeing a Rodriguez's handgun, detained him, then – acting first and asking questions later – forcibly disarmed Rodriguez. After finding out that Rodriguez did not, in fact, have a license to carry and, indeed, was a convicted felon, the officer placed him under arrest.

Of course, hard cases make bad law. But the precedent from the Rodriguez opinion will affect police-citizen relations in New Mexico, and possibly elsewhere in the Tenth Circuit, for many years to come. Not bothering to figure out the legality of Rodriguez's firearm before detaining and disarming him, the officer's initial actions would have been the same even if Mr. Rodriguez had been a lawful gun owner.

According to the 10th Circuit's opinion, the police are justified in forcibly disarming every armed citizen based on nothing more than the presence of a concealed firearm. This allows the police to treat every law-abiding gun owner like a criminal – which, in many cases we have seen, includes rough treatment such as grabbing him, twisting his arm behind his back, slamming him down on the ground, and handcuffing him. Far too many police officers do not like anyone to be armed other than themselves and have taken it upon themselves to intimidate those who dare to exercise Second Amendment rights. Under the Rodriguez decision, only after being forcibly disarmed and detained would a citizen be entitled to demonstrate that he was lawfully exercising his Second Amendment rights. "



Not what I'd call a deal-breaker type decision, less than desirable but no matter how you break it down. He is still FAR better than anything we would be facing from the hildabeast.

[cjwils3]

I am thus far excited about Gorsuch and what he could bring to SCOTUS. As someone with strong pro-life views, I am eager for the day when Roe v. Wade is ruled unconstitutional, as IMO it should have been from the very beginning...