Posted on 01/31/2017 9:17:26 PM PST by Tours
Washington President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court on Tuesday night, fulfilling his campaign promise to nominate a documented judicial conservative to the nation's justiceship.
Gorsuch currently serves as a judge on the US Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. If confirmed by the Senate, he will take the seat of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, considered a lion of the law and a hero of the political Right.
Scalia died over a year ago, leaving a vacancy on the nine-judge court. But Republican Senate leadership refused to entertain then-president Barack Obama's choice for the seat, Merrick Garland, casting the vacancy as a choice the American people to make through the selection of their next president.
Garland, had he been confirmed, would have brought to four the number of Jewish justices on the court.
Trump campaigned on a promise to select his nominee for Scalia's seat from a published list of known conservatives. Gorsuch, 49, was on that list.
Gorsuch characterizes his judicial philosophy in similar terms as Scalia: He considers himself a textualist on statutes, and believes the US Constitution should be enforced as it was originally interpreted. He has weighed in in favor of "religious freedom" laws that have allowed for exceptions to and restrictions on reproductive rights, although he has not personally issued any rulings on abortion from the bench.
Born in Colorado, Gorsuch attended Columbia University, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University for his doctorate. He clerked for both Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy before a short stint in private practice.
Judgeships on the Supreme Court are lifetime appointments.
Shortly after Trump announced his nominee came criticism and concern from several Reform Jewish organizations.
“We are greatly troubled by Judge Gorsuch’s record, which suggests that he may not have the attributes and values a nominee to the Supreme Court ought to have in order to mete out justice and interpret the laws that affect us all,” a statement issued by Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner on behalf of a number of the Reform movement’s umbrella bodies read. “We look forward to engaging in the confirmation process to further evaluate Judge Gorsuch’s views on issues of core importance to the Reform Movement, including civil rights, separation of church and state, religious freedom, women’s rights, LGBTQ equality, and many more.”
Rabbi Pesner added that either way, “it is also absolutely crucial that whomever joins the highest court in the land is a person who will defend the Constitution, promote equal rights and opportunity for all and approach legal interpretation with the reverence and care it deserves.”
“Unless President Trump's nominee meets all of these criteria and clarifies his views in confirmation hearings, we have significant reservations about his confirmation to be a Supreme Court Justice,” he added. Bend the Arc, a liberal social action group, also said it was “deeply concerned” by Gorsuch’s record.
Among Gorsuch’s opinions, most attracting Jewish interest was Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby in 2013, when the appeals court upheld the right of a private business to reject the government mandate to provide contraceptive care under employee health plans.
The Obama administration had offered leeway on such coverage to faith-based non-profits, but would not extend them to private businesses. Gorsuch joined the majority in the Appeals Court ruling, which was upheld the next year by the Supreme Court. Liberal Jewish groups backed the government in the case, while Orthodox Jewish groups favored Hobby Lobby. Gorsuch has also favored displays of crosses on public lands, and has tended in his rulings toward the rights of gun owners, in favor of the death penalty and against abortion rights.
The Interfaith Alliance, which describes itself "the faith-based voice countering the radical right and promoting the positive role of religion”, also voiced opposition to the nomination, saying that Gorsuch supported religious discrimination as federal judge.
"Religious freedom is not a license to discriminate,” the statement read. “Unfortunately, President Trump's Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch seems to believe otherwise.”
The alliance added that "as a federal judge he ruled on two of the most consequential religious freedom cases in recent years, and both times he opposed genuine religious freedom. Instead, he empowered groups seeking to force their religious beliefs onto others.”
"Senators must carefully examine Judge Gorsuch's views and record to determine whether he would uphold religious freedom for all Americans, regardless of faith. We cannot afford as a nation to put our First Freedom at risk,” the group concluded.
Nathan Diament, the Orthodox Union’s executive director of public policy, meantime, said Gorsuch’s rulings “show a jurisprudential approach that venerates religious conscience and pluralism in American society.”
Trump’s supreme court nomination is likely to face a fight, with Democrats suggesting they may filibuster his nomination. Democrats are still stung by the refusal of Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to allow a hearing for President Barack Obama’s nominee to replace Scalia, Merrick Garland, a moderate judge. Garland, had he been confirmed, would have brought to four the number of Jewish justices on the court. On the other side of the Jewish movements spectrum, however, the Orthodox Union, said Gorsuch’s rulings “show a jurisprudential approach that venerates religious conscience and pluralism in American society.”
Danielle Ziri and JTA contributed to this report.
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LOL!
Thanks for proving all of my points.
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Everyone on this thread knows that you are exactly who and what I said you are.
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By all means, have the last word, since it is so very important to you. LOL
Oh, yes, I know him (or her). Evil assertions that need to be taken down.
I take her seriously. Back off with your dumb assertions.
Bttt
And yes, his posts about Hitler, on this thread, needed to be countered. The sad thing about him and those posts, is that I doubt he'd have made them, had he not seen me posting to this thread.
Correct. The article's claim that the nomination is polarizing the Jewish community is ridiculous. The Jewish community is already polarized between Jews who are actually observant believers of the Torah and Jews who are ethnically Jewish but factually opposed, as lib/progs, to both the tenets of Judaism and the fate of Israel. And for that matter, the U.S. Constitution.
And, I might add, the Christian community is having the same problem with the few who are actually believers vs the many who claim to be Christians but are actually apostates.
I’ve had trouble with him before. Lies about Jews need to be countered.
Lies and falsities, posted as "fact", always need to be countered!
“The Reform (and increasingly the Conservative Movement) are removing themselves from being part of the Jewish community. A large percentage of Jews have done the same in the past. Sadducees and related groups did the same, followed by Jewish Christians, the Karaites, followers of Shabbatai Tzvi, and followers of Jacob Frank. All represented a significant percentage of the Jews, but eventually disappeared from the Jewish community.”
And the section of Jews who have made the goals of the Democratic Party their religion (parroting again and again the words “tikkun ha’olam) are so removed from their own self-interest that they have been convinced to be embarrassed that Donald Trump recognizes clearly the benefit to the world that Israel is the last bastion of freedom in the entire Middle East, with freedom of speech and assembly and religion and civil rights and cutting edge technology helping the world, etc, etc, etc.
I was speaking about the Jews needing to get out of Nazi-occupied Europe or they would be killed.
Menachim Begin of the Irgun terrorist group, who blew up the King David Hotel, killing British servicemen, Arabs and even Jews, was a Jew who fled the Nazis. He left Poland as they invaded.
Your comparison is specious, absurd. The world’s sadistic, rabid Jihadists are in the millions and have no respect for human life. You and some like you point again and again dredge out one example: the bombing of the King David Hotel was an event that was intended to have no loss of life and was planned exactly that way, but the British, after receiving direct phone call warnings, ample warning from Begin, arrogantly refusing to evacuate because a Jew warned them. The Irgun specifically wanted zero casualties and warned clearly to get out and left plenty of time for a total evacuation of the hotel.
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/bombing-of-the-king-david-hotel
I was speaking about Jews fleeing from Europe, facing certain death. These were not people who thirsted to kill a myriad of Americans and impose Judaism on them.
n its perfected practice, Christian egoism of heavenly bliss is necessarily transformed into the corporal egoism of the Jew, heavenly need is turned into world need, subjectivism into self-interest. We explain the tenacity of the Jew not by his religion, but, on the contrary, by the human basis of his religion – practical need, egoism.You are not going to hide the reality of Germano-Bolshevism with the lie of Judaeo-Bolshevism. The Kerensky government, which followed the collapse of Czarist rule ended antisemitic laws. However, they continued the war with Germany. The German High Command transported the Bolshevik leadership back to Russia, armed, and funded the antisemitic Bolshevik Revolution, which gave Russia a government, which made the religion of Judaism and practice thereof a crime, and one where ethnic antisemitism continued.
Since in civil society the real nature of the Jew has been universally realized and secularized, civil society could not convince the Jew of the unreality of his religious nature, which is indeed only the ideal aspect of practical need. Consequently, not only in the Pentateuch and the Talmud, but in present-day society we find the nature of the modern Jew, and not as an abstract nature but as one that is in the highest degree empirical, not merely as a narrowness of the Jew, but as the Jewish narrowness of society.
Once society has succeeded in abolishing the empirical essence of Judaism – huckstering and its preconditions – the Jew will have become impossible, because his consciousness no longer has an object, because the subjective basis of Judaism, practical need, has been humanized, and because the conflict between man’s individual-sensuous existence and his species-existence has been abolished.
The social emancipation of the Jew is the emancipation of society from Judaism.
Karl Marx On the Jewish Question
The Cultural Marxists are for the cultural genocide of Jews. It doesn't matter if we look at their inspiration, the ethnic German Engels, or the father of Cultural Marxism, the Italian former Catholic Antonio Gramsci. This is not to say that there aren't far too many Jewish useful idiots, like the neo-Frankists who have hijacked Reform Judaism.
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Stop being an idiot.
The fantasies are all your own Mr. follower of evil men.
Most of all give up on your foolish guesswork; you just lack the cognition to perform.
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