Posted on 02/01/2017 8:01:16 AM PST by LibWhacker
Is this guy another Roberts?
“President Trump has made an outstanding choice in nominating Judge Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court. He has an impressive record that demonstrates his support for the Second Amendment,” said Chris W. Cox, Executive Director, NRA-Institute for Legislative Action, in a statement.
You stuck an unconstitutional word in there, Yer Honor. But I fixed it for you. You're welcome.
Just using the info in this article / piece the landscape is foggy. His opinion before mattered as a circuit judge. “Infringment not taken lightly” is spoken by someone at that level. As a SCOTUS this opinion would need to be re-evaluated because he can now state what “Lightly” and “Infringement” actually mean.
So these opinions could have been stated analytically at the level of law where he practiced. Now that he’s at the top, those levels should affect what he says, does, thinks and bangs the gavel on.
I hope he’s not. I find it odd that a textualist would feel the need to add “lightly.”
Before trying to Bork this man, there is a total rebuttal of this article by the NRA re their support of Neil Gorsuch.
NRA Applauds Neil Gorsuch’s Nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court
https://www.nraila.org/articles/20170131/nra-applauds-neil-gorsuchs-nomination-to-the-us-supreme-court ^ | Jan 21, 2016
Posted on 2/1/2017, 7:42:20 AM by KeyLargo
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Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Fairfax, Va.— The National Rifle Association (NRA) applauds the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to fill Justice Antonin Scalia’s seat on the United States Supreme Court.
“President Trump has made an outstanding choice in nominating Judge Gorsuch for the U.S. Supreme Court. He has an impressive record that demonstrates his support for the Second Amendment,” said Chris W. Cox, Executive Director, NRA-ILA. “We urge the Senate to swiftly confirm Judge Gorsuch to the Supreme Court, just as it did in confirming him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit by a unanimous voice vote.”
During his tenure on the Tenth Circuit, Gorsuch has demonstrated his belief that the Constitution should be applied as the framers intended. To that end, he has supported the individual right to self-defense. Specifically, he wrote in an opinion that “the Second Amendment protects an individual’s right to own firearms and may not be infringed lightly.”
“On behalf of our five million members, the NRA strongly supports Judge Neil Gorsuch’s confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court. We will be activating our members and tens of millions of supporters throughout the country in support of Judge Gorsuch. He will protect our right to keep and bear arms and is an outstanding choice to fill Justice Scalia’s seat,” concluded Cox.
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Does textualism include contextualism and/or subtextualism? I hope not.
I hope he is better on the Commerce Clause than Scalia was.
I want another Thomas!
That makes some sense to me. So a sort of judiciary boilerplate that is worded to show deferential respect to the higher courts?
Seems a little Merrick Garlandish to me on his stance with police powers.
I don’t particularly like that.
There is no such textual implication as infringe “lightly” and I believe that is the point he was making.
The ‘lightly’ phrasing disturbed me as well.
“sort of judiciary boilerplate that is worded to show deferential respect to the higher courts?”
I hope it is. People across the board are getting stupider and stupider, and judges are no exception. Trump has a good head on his shoulders though, and he knows what working talent looks like and has a solid 40 year history of rejecting idiots.
Trump’s tendencies are not new, they are part of his fabric. We have “watched him grow up” and his business life has been in mainstream spotlights since he was 18. He is behaving exactly the same now as he has since he first came into the spot light. So I’m not worried.
Getting a job for Trump is difficult. He vets you about 100 times more precisely than any government check ever would. That’s why they created the reality show for him - he’s famously hard to work for.
And like I pointed out a year ago, Trump isn’t in this for himself. He’s in this for his kids and grandkids.
Do they really? What makes you say this?
I believe by “lightly” he is referring to CCW permits, city limit exclusions, gun-free zones, etc. To me those are infringments that could be considered light. The right is currently infringed upon on many levels.
“Seems a little Merrick Garlandish to me on his stance with police powers.
I don’t particularly like that.”
Someone said the best way to eliminate a law is to strictly enforce it, or something to that effect.
he was saying that there is no small level of infringement that may be tolerated...
any infringement is too heavy.
no need to fix his quote as it is constitutional... he deserves more of your respect though.
Did a Google search and it more or less supported the claim... So, anyway, I'm remembering Roberts and how he changed his colors overnight. Now with Gorsuch's views on guns, I'm no longer that confident about this nomination. Hope I'm wrong.
I actually took the word “lightly” as a positive thing.
there are “light” infringements on our ownership rights put in place by the feds and the states, so I actually understood that state of his to mean there should be infringement, whatsoever.
I could be wrong though.
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