Posted on 06/26/2017 4:42:45 PM PDT by Pinkbell
On Monday, Justice Neil Gorsuch revealed himself to be everything that liberals had most feared: pro-gun, pro–travel ban, anti-gay, anti–church/state separation. He is certainly more conservative than Justice Samuel Alito and possibly to the right of Justice Clarence Thomas. He is an uncompromising reactionary and an unmitigated disaster for the progressive constitutional project. And he will likely serve on the court for at least three more decades.
Although Gorsuch has barely been on the bench for two months, he has already had an opportunity to weigh in on some of the most pressing constitutional issues of our time. In each case, he has chosen the most conservative position. On Monday, Gorsuch indicated that he opposes equal rights for same-sex couples, dissenting from a ruling that requires states to list same-sex parents on birth certificates. (Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito joined his dissent.) That, alone, is startling: In Obergefell v. Hodges, the court held that the Constitution compels states to grant same-sex couples “the constellation” of “rights, benefits, and responsibilities” that “the states have linked to marriage,” including “birth and death certificates.”
Obergefell, then, already settled this issue. Gorsuch’s dissent suggests he may not accept Obergefell as settled law and may instead seek to undermine or reverse it. Gorsuch also joined Thomas in dissenting from the court’s refusal to review a challenge to California’s concealed carry laws. California grants concealed carry permits for “good cause”—namely, a “particularized need, substantiated by documentary evidence, to carry a firearm for self-defense.” Gun advocates challenged this rule, alleging a violation of the Second Amendment. But the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the California regime, and on Monday, the court declined to reconsider its decision...
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Safer, but we can never let our guard down and assume 'safe' from the enemy within. They will hide and fester and wait for another day.
Thank you, thank you for posting this without a barf alert. It brilliantly shows what a great pick this was by OUR PRESIDENT TRUMP. May there be three or more such fantastic picks.
What is best in life?
To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentations of their women!
It’s twice as good with liberals because they all count as women, and even the men who don’t “identify” as women act like they eventually will. Their tears are what is best in life.
Time to put on another pot of covfefe...
Glad to see the libs fear Gorsuch as they do. Now we need at least four more of his kind on the SCOTUS.
The Republic is never safe. We must maintain constant vigilance.
Exactly the words that screamed at me: the progressive constitutional project. If Justice Gorsuch is a disaster for that then he must be a Godsend.
Mwaaa-ha-ha!
Two or three more, please. The dumb RATS even forced Myrtle to dump the filibuster, so now they have nothing next time.
Progressive Constitutional Project = a living Constitution subject to change at any time like Article 2 Sec 1 - any person regardless of age, gender or nationality qualifies to the office of the chief executive.
You say this like it's a bad thing.
That and those who doubted Trump as well
I just like watching their heads explode. I guess I’m a little twisted.
LOL!
“Safer, but we can never let our guard down and assume ‘safe’ from the enemy within. They will hide and fester and wait for another day. “
I learned this from the 80s. Everything was going so well in the 80s. We had Reagan, and the trajectory was really good. I thought America had returned to its collective senses in a sort of permanent way.
Boy was I wrong.
Enjoy the current victories, though.
More articles like this, and I may break into my happy dance.
5.56mm
I think God gave America a chance in the 80’s to jump on board with Him personally... and it did not.
Now this is happening again, this time with a stronger wooing and a stronger warning, under Donald Trump.
It might meet with success this time. I pray to God as He sits at the foundation of the world that He will schedule in the elect, as He did in John Knox era Scotland.
So “wicked” it would have to be before the Great Flood.
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