His vote worries me, too.
It's the second time in a month that he voted with the Leftist judges (minus Ginsburg this time).
Why do Conservatives ALWAYS have to worry about our nominees “evolving” toward the Left!
I would not worry about Gorsuch. The issue in the case dealt with statutory construction. This is not a conservative or liberal issue.
I think the truism is correct that both Dem and GOP pols on average are to the left of their voters and their stated positions.
Then of course there are the RINO/corporate/neocon interests in all the supposedly conservative groups, including the Federalist Society, such that their gold standard for judges isn’t necessarily so golden.
And even the Dems who are far more devious than our side, who could very well be encouraging some of their more moderate attorneys to posture for judicial nominations from the FS.
The same could be said from a leftist perspective, at least in this case WRT Ginsberg. I’m sure lefties are scratching their heads and wondering the same thing.
Guess what, SC Justices are human beings! Can’t really be fit in one mold or another. They aren’t robots. And speaking of Gorsich in particular, both the left and the right were all in a tizzy during his nomination thinking he’d lead the charge to reverse Roe on a white horse or something when the opposite is really the case. I’d be very worried if one of the recent abortion laws in the news now comes before the Court. Gorsich is on record many times supporting the status quo, very reluctant to reverse precedent. So all that hoopla surrounding his nomination was for nothing. For both “sides”.
Now, if I may end on a light note, here’s my theory why we are hearing that Ginsberg has apparently shown some life when so many on FR have told us she’s dead: this is obviously a Ginsberg clone, crafted in the clone vats reverse engineered from the Roswell crash. Note, they were tested when Elvis was similarly resurrected.
For the humorless, that last paragraph was biting parody, meant to make every fool on FR feel as foolish as they are for believing such a crazy conspiracy theory as that. Of course, probably won’t stop the most foolish of that group. But can’t help every bong addled freak. Hopefully though for the most part, that dark chapter in FR is now mostly over. Makes us all look stupid for actually taking such crap seriously.
I’m conservative and I might have dissented from the majority opinion here too, because they used a process crime to add years to the appellant’s sentence. You can’t read too much into Gorsuch’s vote, as it appears to be based on the unique facts of this case.