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Neil Gorsuch, the Nominee for a Stolen Seat
NYT ^

Posted on 01/31/2017 8:34:31 PM PST by MNDude

It’s been almost a year since Senate Republicans took an empty Supreme Court seat hostage, discarding a constitutional duty that both parties have honored throughout American history and hobbling an entire branch of government for partisan gain.

President Trump had a great opportunity to repair some of that damage by nominating a moderate candidate for the vacancy, which was created when Justice Antonin Scalia died last February. Instead, he chose Neil Gorsuch, a very conservative judge from the federal Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit whose jurisprudence and writing style are often compared to those of Justice Scalia.

If Judge Gorsuch is confirmed, the court will once again have a majority of justices appointed by Republican presidents, as it has for nearly half a century. For starters, that spells big trouble for public-sector labor unions, environmental regulations and women’s access to contraception. If Trump gets the chance to name another justice, the consequences could be much more dire.

In normal times, Judge Gorsuch — a widely respected and, at 49, relatively young judge with a reliably conservative voting record — would be an obvious choice for a Republican president.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


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KEYWORDS: biden; bidensfault; gorsuch; leftwingnuts; news; nytimes; scalia; scotus
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To: MUDDOG

It’s just the Biden rule. In 1992 Biden said a president should not fill a Supreme Court vacancy during an election year.


Liberals don’t have any consistent standards. They just people and situations based on ever shifting criteria, depending on what position will advance the liberal agenda.

If a Republican is president, as was true in 1992, then Democrats would agree with the Biden rule, as he stated it back then. They didn’t want the first George Bush to have another Supreme Court nominee. Because that would have impeded the liberal agenda.

But in this most recent case, where Obama’s nominee was denied his hearing and vote, we were told that the Biden rule had now been changed, inexplicably no longer applies.

Why was this? Clearly due to politics. It would have benefited the liberals for Obama to have filled this Supreme Court seat. So that means the rules and criteria for filling Supreme Court vacancies at the end of a president’s term of office were now different than what the Democrats had stated years ago.

And so it goes..................


41 posted on 01/31/2017 9:02:01 PM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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To: nickedknack

the rats have blocked every single decent constitutional conservative judge and they have done it for decades..


42 posted on 01/31/2017 9:02:29 PM PST by cherry
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To: MNDude

Wait until you see what we do with the next 3, which will ensure a conservative SCOTUS for 30 years....


43 posted on 01/31/2017 9:02:32 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: MNDude

“If Trump gets the chance to name another justice, the consequences could be much more dire.”

My bet is President Trump will name another justice within 6 months.

I use liberal tears in my milkshake.


44 posted on 01/31/2017 9:07:28 PM PST by Gator113 (I use liberal tears in my milkshake ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~ LOCK HER UP ~ ~~Trump 2020~~)
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To: Gator113

NYT is delusional. Would the dems have done the same. NO!

Not surprising they are downsizing.


45 posted on 01/31/2017 9:10:48 PM PST by gswilder
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To: pfflier

Same President who told the Republicans, “They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.”

Now that the shoe’s on the other foot, the whining juvenile Democrats want to blow up the bus.


46 posted on 01/31/2017 9:12:34 PM PST by JennysCool
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To: MNDude

An angry NYTimes makes me very happy. Thank You president Trump and everybody who voted for you.


47 posted on 01/31/2017 9:13:02 PM PST by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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To: MNDude
spells big trouble for public-sector labor unions, environmental regulations

GREAT!

and women’s access to contraception.

Bolshevik!

48 posted on 01/31/2017 9:13:15 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (The fear of stark justice sends hot urine down their thighs.)
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To: MNDude


49 posted on 01/31/2017 9:14:56 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: MNDude

“President Trump had a great opportunity to repair some of that damage by nominating a moderate candidate for the vacancy...”

Absolutely delusional. I’m sure they take themselves seriously but no sane person could.


50 posted on 01/31/2017 9:15:03 PM PST by gunsequalfreedom
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To: Gator113

Yeah, Ruth Buzzy is already playing the part of weekend at Bernie’s.


51 posted on 01/31/2017 9:15:12 PM PST by VRWCarea51 (The Original 1998 Version)
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To: MNDude

These are the communist idiots on the “Editorial Board”.

This fake news company is majority owned by the Mexican billionaire Slim.


52 posted on 01/31/2017 9:16:46 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA-SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS-CLOSE ALL MOSQUES)
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To: Eddie01
Got that right. Stolen when Scalia was murdered.

^^^^^

And to be replaced by Obama. You know, in case the Democratic candidate for president somehow ended up in another electoral vote showdown in the Supreme Court.

They pulled out all the stops and still got beat!

This country was only one lost election away from the point of no return.

THAT'S a major reason for so much of the wailing and gnashing of teeth.

53 posted on 01/31/2017 9:17:13 PM PST by nralife
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To: MNDude

Can’t they just apply that butthurt creme at home?


54 posted on 01/31/2017 9:17:29 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: MNDude

The swamp fever is running wild.


55 posted on 01/31/2017 9:18:29 PM PST by oldbrowser (The Agenda Media no longer has a shred of credibility.)
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To: MNDude

The death of Scalia was the “stolen seat”.


56 posted on 01/31/2017 9:20:20 PM PST by FrankR (You're only enslaved to the extent of the charity that you receive!)
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To: DannyTN
Here is a link to an animated GIF of the democrat crybaby: http://www.fiddlstix.net/dims/democrats.gif


57 posted on 01/31/2017 9:25:21 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Eddie01

The only reason they had Scalia murdered was because they were sure Hillary was going to win. They had to do it early, because it would be too obvious if they did it right before the election.


58 posted on 01/31/2017 9:30:14 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

I wouldn’t put anything beyond these amoral LIB malignancies...anything.


59 posted on 01/31/2017 9:33:49 PM PST by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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To: UCANSEE2
they had Scalia murdered

Remember how he was rushed off to the crematorium to make certain there was no autopsy?

Even an everyday person not a supreme court justice dying under those circumstances would have been autopsied to ascertain the cause of death.


60 posted on 01/31/2017 9:43:57 PM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 66 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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