LF: Trump selects Gorsuch for U.S. Supreme Court

Title: Trump selects Gorsuch for U.S. Supreme Court
Source: WoodTV 8
URL Source: http://woodtv.com/2017/01/31/who-is ... ck-announcement-tuesday-night/
Published: Jan 31, 2017
Author: JULIE PACE and MARK SHERMAN, Associated
Post Date: 2017-01-31 20:37:22 by Hondo68
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Views: 5900
Comments: 30

President Donald Trump, Judge Neil Gorsuch, U.S. Supreme Court nominee

President Donald Trump speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2017, to announce Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court. Gorsuch stands with his wife Louise.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has nominated federal appeals judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.

The 49-year-old Gorsuch has served on the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver since 2006, after being appointed by President George W. Bush. He once worked at the Supreme Court as a law clerk.

If approved by the Senate, Gorsuch would take the seat left vacant since Justice Antonin Scalia died last year. Republicans refused to consider President Barack Obama’s nominee for the seat, saying the choice should go Obama’s successor.

He would be the youngest justice since Clarence Thomas joined the court in 1991 at age 43.

Trump made the announcement Tuesday in a prime-time address from the White House.

I encourage the U.S. Senate to confirm Judge Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.
— A.G. Bill Schuette (@SchuetteOnDuty) February 1, 2017

Excellent pick. However the demoncrats will have their knives sharpened to find some college hazing scandal or that he drinks the blood of Muslims in some secret society. It's coming. It's coming I'm here to tell you.

He was the majority opinion on the Hobby Lobby AHA contraception decision. So obviously he will be painted as anti choice, anti women's reproductive health (whatever that means...yes abortion) and obviously a misogynist to boot. So he hates women...totally hates them.

He will be anti Muslim of course because he defended religious liberty. According to demoncrats that means he decided cases favoring Christians. Which of course means he opposes separation of church and state. Which is a total disaster for liberals. Terrible I tell you.

I'm sure there is more. Perhaps he stayed with his wife at a Trump resort 20 years ago on their honeymoon, which means a huge conflict of interest. Huge I tell you.

Are the 10 Dem senators up for reelection in 2018 willing to gamble over something that is already a given? These Senators come from states where Trump won a heavy county majority.

Are these same senators willing to hear how Obama's nominees for SCOTUS were not blocked by GOP senators for the liberal "seats" on the court?

I'm thinking no. I'm thinking if they were smart they would save filibuster in their quiver if a liberal judge retires or dies.

Trump can't even get his cabinet approved because of the Democrats playing politics and dragging their feet. And they only need 51 votes. So a nuclear option is always a possibility.

But 25 Democrat (+Ind.) Senate seats are up in 2018 -- next year -- a lot of them in states that Trump won. Imagine Trump campaigning with the Republican in those states, telling the crowds that their current Democrat Senator refuses to work with him on a simple SCOTUS appointment.