Gorsuch could begin playing pivotal role on Supreme Court starting next week

Washington Post ^ | Apr. 7, 2017 | Robert Barnes and Ed O'Keefe

[Innovative]

Newly confirmed Neil M. Gorsuch is likely to have an immediate impact at the Supreme Court, weighing in as early as next week on whether to consider expanding the breadth of the Second Amendment. He could play a decisive role this spring in determining how voting rights should be protected and in a major case on the separation of church and state.

[Pollster1]

I would be more than okay with Kennedy resigning to spend more time with his family. His written opinions are all over the map and seem to be the most creative and inventive of all the current justices. He doesn’t always oppose the rule of law, so he’s not as bad as RBG, but he doesn’t have a core legal philosophy as all.

[xzins]

I want him to decide based on the text of the constitution.

If he does that grammatically and definitionally, whether he agrees with me ir not, I’ll actually see what he’s saying in the text of the constigution.

[DoodleDawg]

- The constitutional restrictions are on an “establishment of religion” and on “prohibiting the free exercise thereof”. These are far different from and not closely related to a separation of church and state. The active hostility toward religion pushed by the ACLU and by the big government left have restricting the free exercise of religion as one of their central tenets.

This is hardly a religious freedom case in the mold of Little Sisters of the Poor. In the Missouri case the state constitution is clear: “...no money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, or denomination of religion.” The church's argument that a playground does not promote religion is irrelevant. Nobody is trying to force the Lutheran Church to do something that violates its religious beliefs, just saying that they can't take advantage of a government freebee. Two lower courts ruled for the state. Either Justice Gorsuch applies the letter of the law or he does not.

[PGR88]

We all knew this was coming, but with Trump’s bombing of Syria putting the MSM in melt-down mode, hardly a peep was heard in any media about the “nuclear option” and the quick approval of Gorsuch.

Coincidence?

[PGR88]

the SC justices nominated by Democrats undergo rigorous vetting as left-wing judicial activists and they deliver

Republicans seem to like originalists who are more impressed with the beauty of their logic and the magnificent knots they can tie in their philosophy - while Democrats, as you point out, simply nominate ideologues who will vote where the Party wants them to vote.

[i_robot73]

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Gorsuch and the Nuke Option could have very well saved the US Constitution from the Leftist DemoRats.
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Leftist DemoRats? Tell me again who passed TSA, NSA, NCLB, Part D, Patriot Act...Have the (R) been abiding by the Constitution?

Unless Gorsuch is going full-originalist, and knocking the uniparty *HARD*, I fail to see any ‘savings’ that have racked our once Republic over the last 100+yrs. (IOW: They strike down SS, Welfare, income tax, O’Care, EPA, etc.)

[Vision]

and in a major case on the separation of church and state.

Which judges just made up along the way to suit their needs.

[loveliberty2]

From Justice Scalia’s son..... God blessed Dad, as is well known, with a love for his country. He knew well what a close-run thing the founding of our nation was. And he saw in that founding, as did the founders themselves, a blessing, a blessing quickly lost when faith is banned from the public square, or when we refuse to bring it there. So he understood that there is no conflict between loving God and loving one’s country, between one’s faith and one’s public service. Dad understood that the deeper he went in his Catholic faith, the better a citizen and public servant he became. God blessed him with the desire to be the country’s good servant because he was God’s first. _Father Paul Scalia’s homily at the funeral Mass for Justice Antonin Scalia, February 20, 2016 “