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Neil Gorsuch’s Early Opinions Reveal A Deeply Conservative Supreme Court Justice
QUARTZ ^ | June 26, 2017

Posted on 06/26/2017 8:28:55 PM PDT by Helicondelta

During a US presidential debate in October, then candidate Donald Trump said he would be looking to appoint Supreme Court justices “in the mold” of the late Antonin Scalia. Neil Gorsuch, sworn in on April 10, has yet to disappoint.

Gorsuch, 49, is at the very beginning of a lifetime appointment, but his recent stances on the travel ban, LGBT parents’ rights, and gun laws say a lot about what’s to come. In his first few months, Gorsuch has sided four times with justice Clarence Thomas, thought to be the most conservative judge on the bench.

“[Today] we got a very good indication that [Gorsuch] will be most like Justice Scalia, and often voting with Justices Thomas and Alito, making Justice Gorsuch one of the most, or most, conservative Justices,” Rick Hasen, a professor of law and political science at UC Irvine, wrote at Election Law Blog on June 26.

Travel ban

In a ruling today on Donald J. Trump v International Refugee Assistance Project, also known as the revised version of Trump’s travel ban on visitors from six Muslim-majority countries, Gorsuch sided with Thomas (pdf) in dissenting from a partial reinstatement. (Gorsuch and Thomas both thought the ban should be reinstated fully until the oral arguments hearing in October.) Now exempted from that reinstatement are visitors with work permits, student visas, and relatives in the US.

Guns

Also on June 26, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case on whether the Second Amendment includes the right to carry firearms in public.

Gorsuch and Thomas dissented, saying that the state of California should not deny its citizens the right to bear arms in self-defense. “The Court’s decision… reflects a distressing trend,” they wrote. “The treatment of the Second Amendment as a disfavored right.”

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1 posted on 06/26/2017 8:28:55 PM PDT by Helicondelta
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To: Helicondelta

WHICH IS WHY WE VOTED FOR TRUMP!


2 posted on 06/26/2017 8:29:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You cannot invade the mainland US. There'd be a rifle behind every blade of grass.)
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To: Helicondelta

I hope he stays away from any hunting resorts owned by dems.


3 posted on 06/26/2017 8:30:22 PM PDT by JudyinCanada
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To: Helicondelta

It’s been a very encouraging day!


4 posted on 06/26/2017 8:31:10 PM PDT by GnuThere
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To: Helicondelta

Scalia 2.0?

Scalia Jr.?

Scalia II?

Scalia, The Second Coming?


5 posted on 06/26/2017 8:31:38 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Helicondelta

Go away Kennedy

Lie down Ruth


6 posted on 06/26/2017 8:32:05 PM PDT by Az Joe (Gloria in excelsis Deo)
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To: Helicondelta

His writing is clear and humorous so he is definitely in the mold of Scalia. We have a lot of years of great opinions to come from Justice Gorsuch


7 posted on 06/26/2017 8:32:35 PM PDT by McGavin999
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8 posted on 06/26/2017 8:33:50 PM PDT by HokieMom (Pacepa : Can the U.S. afford a president who can't recognize anti-Americanism?)
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To: Helicondelta

With people like Gorsuch on the Court it gets HARDER AND HARDER to forgive the NeverTrumpers, starting with Cruz.


9 posted on 06/26/2017 8:34:22 PM PDT by BobL (In Honor of the NeverTrumpers, I declare myself as FR's first 'Imitation NeverTrumper')
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

[ Neil Gorsuch’s Early Opinions Reveal A Deeply Conservative Supreme Court Justice ]

Oh no, we’ll need more safe spaces for liberals!

And then, when Kennedy and RBG are replaced.....the MSM will be going even more cuckoo. If that were possible....


10 posted on 06/26/2017 8:35:25 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: SaveFerris

Love winning!


11 posted on 06/26/2017 8:37:42 PM PDT by Guenevere
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To: Helicondelta

Hang on.

Kennedy was the guy who replaced Bork. A couple of years in, I remember Bork saying that Kennedy hadn’t cast a single vote that would’ve been different from what he (Bork) would’ve cast. We all felt great.

That didn’t last.

Roberts was good for awhile.

These guys love to “grow” in office. Don’t get too complacent.


12 posted on 06/26/2017 8:38:18 PM PDT by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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To: Az Joe
I was more hoping for another Clarence Thomas. Scalia was a bit too reluctant to overturn past SCOTUS rulings that were clearly wrong.
13 posted on 06/26/2017 8:40:56 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Az Joe

14 posted on 06/26/2017 8:41:45 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Guenevere

I hope they nuke their conservative replacements in. Bwahahahaha.


15 posted on 06/26/2017 8:42:03 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Az Joe

Scalia lives!


16 posted on 06/26/2017 8:43:26 PM PDT by joshua c (To disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives)
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To: Helicondelta

Gorsuch’s a win!


17 posted on 06/26/2017 8:43:49 PM PDT by GOPJ (Black clitizens spend too much time worrying about what white people think. Get a life dudes.)
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To: Helicondelta

Just wait, the instant he utters or writes one syllable that deviates from some conservatives orthodoxy, he will be roundly castigated on FR.

Purism. It’s what we do.


18 posted on 06/26/2017 8:46:08 PM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Helicondelta

Im still not tired of winning.


19 posted on 06/26/2017 8:46:41 PM PDT by rdl6989
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To: Az Joe

Agreed, no skin in the game Kennedy, and Just Dimsberg need to go.


20 posted on 06/26/2017 8:47:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Fourth estate? Ha! Our media has become the KCOTUS, the Kangaroo Court of the United States.)
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