Posted on 06/26/2017 8:28:55 PM PDT by Helicondelta
During a US presidential debate in October, then candidate Donald Trump said he would be looking to appoint Supreme Court justices “in the mold” of the late Antonin Scalia. Neil Gorsuch, sworn in on April 10, has yet to disappoint.
Gorsuch, 49, is at the very beginning of a lifetime appointment, but his recent stances on the travel ban, LGBT parents’ rights, and gun laws say a lot about what’s to come. In his first few months, Gorsuch has sided four times with justice Clarence Thomas, thought to be the most conservative judge on the bench.
“[Today] we got a very good indication that [Gorsuch] will be most like Justice Scalia, and often voting with Justices Thomas and Alito, making Justice Gorsuch one of the most, or most, conservative Justices,” Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at UC Irvine, wrote at Election Law Blog on June 26.
Travel ban
In a ruling today on Donald J. Trump v International Refugee Assistance Project, also known as the revised version of Trump’s travel ban on visitors from six Muslim-majority countries, Gorsuch sided with Thomas (pdf) in dissenting from a partial reinstatement. (Gorsuch and Thomas both thought the ban should be reinstated fully until the oral arguments hearing in October.) Now exempted from that reinstatement are visitors with work permits, student visas, and relatives in the US.
Guns
Also on June 26, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case on whether the Second Amendment includes the right to carry firearms in public.
Gorsuch and Thomas dissented, saying that the state of California should not deny its citizens the right to bear arms in self-defense. “The Court’s decision… reflects a distressing trend,” they wrote. “The treatment of the Second Amendment as a disfavored right.”
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WHICH IS WHY WE VOTED FOR TRUMP!
I hope he stays away from any hunting resorts owned by dems.
It’s been a very encouraging day!
Scalia 2.0?
Scalia Jr.?
Scalia II?
Scalia, The Second Coming?
Go away Kennedy
Lie down Ruth
His writing is clear and humorous so he is definitely in the mold of Scalia. We have a lot of years of great opinions to come from Justice Gorsuch
With people like Gorsuch on the Court it gets HARDER AND HARDER to forgive the NeverTrumpers, starting with Cruz.
[ Neil Gorsuch’s Early Opinions Reveal A Deeply Conservative Supreme Court Justice ]
Oh no, we’ll need more safe spaces for liberals!
And then, when Kennedy and RBG are replaced.....the MSM will be going even more cuckoo. If that were possible....
Love winning!
Hang on.
Kennedy was the guy who replaced Bork. A couple of years in, I remember Bork saying that Kennedy hadn’t cast a single vote that would’ve been different from what he (Bork) would’ve cast. We all felt great.
That didn’t last.
Roberts was good for awhile.
These guys love to “grow” in office. Don’t get too complacent.
I hope they nuke their conservative replacements in. Bwahahahaha.
Scalia lives!
Gorsuch’s a win!
Just wait, the instant he utters or writes one syllable that deviates from some conservatives orthodoxy, he will be roundly castigated on FR.
Purism. It’s what we do.
Im still not tired of winning.
Agreed, no skin in the game Kennedy, and Just Dimsberg need to go.
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