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Gorsuch was very significant. And the next retiree should be completely conservative.
9 posted on 04/30/2017 7:15:59 AM PDT by dhs12345
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I’m totally pleased with Gorsuch, but I have one caution to express. Like Chief Justice Roberts, Gorsuch will be faithful to upholding original intent. I felt that the Chief was maligned when he decided against a penalty and for a tax thereby upholding Obamacare. The power of the federal government to levy taxes is unlimited. Judges need not accept language used by the parties, and although the government argued “penalty” the Chief held it was not a penalty since it bore some rational relationship to funding. (My characterization not the words of the Chief Justice). When the Chief said that it was not up to the court to strike down a bad law, it is up to congress; and if the voters don’t like the law they need to vote the politicians out of office, I thought he spoke like a true and faithful servant of the Constitution. I can see Gorsuch doing much the same thing in the future. He will likely be true to original intent but anger some ideologues as Chief Justice Roberts did.


15 posted on 04/30/2017 7:29:34 AM PDT by street_lawyer
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To: dhs12345
Gorsuch was very significant. And the next retiree should be completely conservative.
I hope you mean that the replacement for the next retiree should be completely conservative.

The next retiree, if any, will presumably not be Justice Thomas or Justice Alito, nor even Justice Roberts. Among the rest, who would you classify as “completely conservative?"


70 posted on 04/30/2017 10:46:53 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which ‘liberalism’ coheres is that NOTHING ACTUALLY MATTERS except PR.)
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