Posted on 11/06/2017 7:27:16 AM PST by yoe
America’s newest Supreme Court Justice – Neil Gorsuch – has made news in the liberal media – not necessarily for his opinions though.
The media has portrayed the Trump-appointee as pedantic, boorish and juvenile and annoying.
This is hard to square with the praise Gorsuch received from colleagues and former law clerks during his confirmation hearing, writes Elizabeth Slattery in a (commentary) on Heritage.org.
In a recent episode of the Supreme Court podcast “First Mondays,” NPR’s legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg took aim at Gorsuch. First in her crosshairs was his habit of frequently citing the Constitution. She objected to Gorsuch bringing things back to first principles at oral argument. He often prefaces his questions by saying, “Let’s look at what the Constitution says about this … It’s always a good place to start.” This should come as no surprise.
[snip] But it annoys liberals, who want a “modern” interpretation of the Constitution, without the baggage of the historical record.
(Excerpt) Read more at thefederalistpapers.org ...
Fur the chilren.
Translation: If it weren’t for that damn Constitution we could already be a tyrannical despotic cesspool utopia...
Nina Totenberg’s opinion matters about as much as the slug I stepped on while walking to my car this morning.
I listened to NPR regularly from 1984 (when it debuted here) until about 2000. I am a classical music fan and it was the only classical music station around.
For years, I put on the headphones and listened to Weekend Edition while working on Saturdays. I tolerated the left wing slant because I enjoyed the interviews and music. Then, one day, I took off headphones and never listened again. I just couldn’t take the bias anymore.
In September, some idiot ran into me at a red light. My car has been in the shop ever since. My rental has only local channels (I listen to SiriusXM religiously) and, aside from some good Christian stations, local radio here is awful.
Scanning local stations on the way home from work last week, the radio fell on NPR. I decided to listen to see if the bias was just as pronounced as it used to be.
It’s even worse now. The sneering hosts spew the left wing bilge with abandon. Every sentence is carefully phrased to paint anyone not of the far left as a silly, inconsequential fool.
They skimmed over the Uranium One story by reporting it as an unfounded allegation made by Trump: “President Trump accused Hillary Clinton ....” Instead of just reporting on the story, they attempted to downplay it as just another delirious rant by that awful man in the White House.
Liberal/Socialism is Communism light....never forget that.
Yep...Just another word to use for Communism...
Nina Totenberg said she hoped Jesse Helm’s grandchildren died of AIDs.
...Who does the Totebag want SCOTUS to “cite”? Marx, Stalin, Hitler and Alinsky?...
Don’t forget foreign law. Ginsberg likes to do that.
Anything but that pesky old Constitution.
In fact their teachers and some parents believe Socialism/Communism.
Agree they all fall into the same slot every time slackers who expect a free lunch and ride and yet to stupid to know how Socialism/Communism works millions die under those rulings and the one’s who live are government slaves for life that’s not living.
NPR’s legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg took aim at Gorsuch. First in her crosshairs was his habit of frequently citing the Constitution. She objected to Gorsuch bringing things back to first principles at oral argument. He often prefaces his questions by saying, “Let’s look at what the Constitution says about this … It’s always a good place to start.”
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Really blow her little mind and take it up a notch and start citing the Bible as our moral foundation.
Nina Totenberg said she hoped General Boykin “is not long for this world”
after Boykin had the nerve to point out that that muslims slaughter people.
NPR fired its ONLY non white on air person when they fired Juan Williams shortly after he said seeing a muslim on a plane he is taking makes him nervous.
When President Ronald Reagan nominated Judge Douglas Ginsburg to the US Supreme Court in 1987, one of Ginsberg’s fellow Harvard professors contacted National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg to undermine the nomination.
Totenberg reported that she had witnesses who could verify Ginsburg had used marijuana “on a few occasions” during his student days in the 1960s and while an assistant professor at Harvard. In the face of a media firestorm and under pressure from all sides, a humiliated Ginsburg withdrew himself from consideration for the Supreme Court seat.
NPR’s Totenberg acted as if she considered the US Supreme Court her personal property, with her mission to protect it from non left wing nominees. She later engineered the Anita Hill allegations of sexual harassment by Judge Clarence Thomas that turned Thomas’ 1991 nomination hearings into a circus. Earlier her antics got attention when she bizarrely dug up and reported the video rental record of Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork at a Virginia video store.
Oh, that wascally Constitution!
“Nina Totenberg’s opinion matters about as much as the slug I stepped on while walking to my car this morning.”
I’ll take the slug over “Ninny” Nina any day!
Rather than 'brash, abrupt, how about honest and forthright
Ninny Totenberg of PBS does not have a law degree.
So I think you would get a more cogent “analysis” of legal matters from Miss Piggy...
NPR needs to be defunded NOW, IMMEDIATELY!
No more tax payer money for this left wing mouthpiece of socialist nonsense.
Good grief...
I keep getting her mixed up with the NPR reporter who said all women in America should get down on their knees for Clinton because of all the things he did for women in America.
Skanks all.
“I, _________, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me as _________ under the Constitution and laws of the United States; and that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.”
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