You have to expand on that.
What is it about Souter that so offends you? And why does Gorsuch remind you of him?
Gorsuch was very respectful and by me he gave all the right answers.
But the Dems are blocking him anyway, I think to force the Repubs to change Senate rules on nominating a Supreme court judge.
Just a hunch.
This 60 vote filibuster rule is stupid anyway, it’s not in the constitution, they use it when it suits them....get rid of it.
Unfortunately, rendering rulings that are the opposite of their philosophy/judicial views they made up to the point of the confirmation hearings is always a risk with Supreme Court Justices—or any federal judge, for that matter.
You would think that any smart judge would always rule in favor of the Constitution as WRITTEN. How can they not?
Yet some do. I don’t know how that can truly be stopped by the original nominator—or Senate—when the eventually appointed and approved judge start’s making actual rulings.
Some just go wobbly (Kennedy, O’Connor, and Souter) and others were plain liars during their initial vetting or hearings (Sotomayor, Kagan).
We have to pray that they’ll do the right thing in each and every case brought before them, but their decisions need to be ultimately based on the Constitution.
Souter was glib and gave all the right answers at his hearings. I recall watching him and thinking he is not what he seems. He did not strike me as a conservative thinker.
I had the same impression with Gorsuch. Bland answers, several repetitive statements re “no-one knows how I will rule on this”.
This might just be intuition on my part, but he makes me uneasy. I hope I am wrong.