[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Trumps SCOTUS pick.... (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 1/24/2017 12:47:39 PM EDT
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Neil Gorsuch, 49 Judge, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Gorsuch is unusual on a list that is mostly devoid of candidates with ties to the coastal elite. The clerk to Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy is a Columbia, Harvard and Oxford graduate who spent a decade in private practice in Washington before taking a top Justice Department job. He was quickly confirmed to the 10th Circuit after being nominated by President George W. Bush in 2006. While Gorsuch has more of a Washington resume than other Trump finalists, his family’s experience in the city was a searing one. Gorsuch’s mother, Anne Burford Gorsuch, ran the Environmental Protection Agency at the outset of the Reagan administration. She was forced to resign in 1983, facing a criminal investigation and a House contempt of Congress citation over records related to alleged political favoritism in toxic-waste cleanups. She maintained her innocence and was never charged. |
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in about 2 years someone else to be nominated...........Gingsburg will croak soon How could you tell? 
Of the many things to bitch about in politics,I would find an 80 year old who admits she was drunk at the State of the Union and is catatonic deciding the most important legal cases in the nation is really fucked up. |
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Then no. Just no! We want one that's proven pro 2A.  Appellate court justices hear appeals. They decide the cases in front of them which come up on appeal from the trial courts. They can't just haul off and write opinions on whatever interests them. If no gun/2A case came up to his court on appeal, what is he supposed to do? |
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Appellate court justices hear appeals. They decide the cases in front of them which come up on appeal from the trial courts. They can't just haul off and write opinions on whatever interests them. If no gun/2A case came up to his court on appeal, what is he supposed to do? UHHHHH, HE IS SUPPOSED TO POLITICIZE NON-2A CASES, BY STICKING THE 2A INTO THEM, CREATING PRECEDENT!!!!!! DUHHHHHHH  
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Looks to be: Neil Gorsuch, 49 Judge, 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Gorsuch is unusual on a list that is mostly devoid of candidates with ties to the coastal elite. The clerk to Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy is a Columbia, Harvard and Oxford graduate who spent a decade in private practice in Washington before taking a top Justice Department job. He was quickly confirmed to the 10th Circuit after being nominated by President George W. Bush in 2006. While Gorsuch has more of a Washington resume than other Trump finalists, his family’s experience in the city was a searing one. Gorsuch’s mother, Anne Burford Gorsuch, ran the Environmental Protection Agency at the outset of the Reagan administration. She was forced to resign in 1983, facing a criminal investigation and a House contempt of Congress citation over records related to alleged political favoritism in toxic-waste cleanups. She maintained her innocence and was never charged. So the Democrats slandered her and forced her to resign. Sounds like Ol' Teddybear's doing. Communist son of a bitch. I hope he's burning in Hell. |
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How could you tell? http://s3-origin-images.politico.com/2015/02/13/150213_ruth_bader_ginsburg_gty_629.jpg Of the many things to bitch about in politics,I would find an 80 year old who admits she was drunk at the State of the Union and is catatonic deciding the most important legal cases in the nation is really fucked up. Look at the bruises on her hand. She's got some health issues, no doubt. |
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The left will still vilify him over She was forced to resign in 1983, facing a criminal investigation and a House contempt of Congress citation over records related to alleged political favoritism in toxic-waste cleanups. She maintained her innocence and was never charged. |
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Here, not saying he's the best choice but at least some back ground.
Mike Lee Utah Senator During Lee’s first run for Congress in 2010, the NRA endorsed his candidacy and gave him a provisional A grade, its highest rating for a lawmaker with no legislative voting record. Once in office, Lee became popular with gun rights supporters for introducing an amendment that would have required future gun laws to win approval from two-thirds of the senate. Lee has also opposed bans on high-capacity magazines and the United Nations’ Arms Trade Treaty. The treaty, designed to keep weapons out of the hands of rogue governments and militant groups, has drawn the ire of Second Amendment activists, who dubiously assert that it is part of a secret globalist agenda to take away their guns. In 2013, Lee said during an appearance on Fox News that universal background checks on gun purchases were akin to giving the government access to what Americans eat for breakfast or the books they check out of the library. |
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SCOTUSBlog says it's down to three, with Trump to announce next week. Hardiman and Pryor are still under consideration. Kharn On Pryor: William H. Pryor Jr. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals judge While he was the Alabama attorney general from 1997 to 2004, Pryor fiercely denounced lawsuits against gun manufacturers that had been filed by city governments and victims of violence. In remarks to members of the conservative Cato Institute, Pryor said such litigation was being carried out by “leftist bounty hunters” in what amounted to an “assault on fundamental civil rights.” As Alabama’s AG, Pryor also injected himself into the case of a Texas man who had been charged with violating the federal ban on possessing firearms while under a domestic violence restraining order, calling the government’s interpretation of the law “a sweeping and arbitrary infringement on the Second Amendment.” In 2001, the NRA’s lobbying arm gave Pryor its Harlon B. Carter Legislative Achievement Award, its top honor. When Pryor was nominated to the U.S. Court of Appeals in 2003, his positions led a prominent Democrat to question whether impartial he could be impartial on gun cases. During Pryor’s confirmation hearings, Ted Kennedy criticized him for “vigorously” opposing gun restrictions and using the attorney general’s office “to advance his own personal ideological agenda” in the Texas case. |
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Thomas Hardiman
3rd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals Judge New Jersey’s strict regulations for issuing gun permits wound up before Hardiman and his colleagues in 2013. The rules require people who want a permit to carry guns in public to show a “justifiable need,” defined as “specific threats or previous attacks demonstrating a special danger to applicant’s life that cannot be avoided by other means.” While the appeals court upheld the law, Hardiman argued in a dissent that New Jersey’s “may issue” requirements violate the Second Amendment because they curtail people’s right to self defense. |
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The left will still vilify him over She was forced to resign in 1983, facing a criminal investigation and a House contempt of Congress citation over records related to alleged political favoritism in toxic-waste cleanups. She maintained her innocence and was never charged. My name is Dave. |
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UHHHHH, HE IS SUPPOSED TO POLITICIZE NON-2A CASES, BY STICKING THE 2A INTO THEM, CREATING PRECEDENT!!!!!! DUHHHHHHH Quoted:
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Appellate court justices hear appeals. They decide the cases in front of them which come up on appeal from the trial courts. They can't just haul off and write opinions on whatever interests them. If no gun/2A case came up to his court on appeal, what is he supposed to do? UHHHHH, HE IS SUPPOSED TO POLITICIZE NON-2A CASES, BY STICKING THE 2A INTO THEM, CREATING PRECEDENT!!!!!! DUHHHHHHH You're right. Don't know how I forgot that. Probably ought to publish advisory opinions on every issue that might ever come before him on the SC while he's at it.
He did call gun ownership constitutionally protected in a case he considered dealing with ambiguously worded criminal statutes. But it wasn't central to the holding in that case. |
| If you are interested in a detailed and non-MSM discussion, check out his profile on SCOTUS BLOG. |
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He's 49, which seems about right given you want someone with solid experience. I want someone who will consistently vote in an originalist fashion for as long as possible. If there was a 19 year old who would do that and get thru the nomination process then that is who I'd support. |
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Look at the bruises on her hand. She's got some health issues, no doubt. Quoted:
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How could you tell? http://s3-origin-images.politico.com/2015/02/13/150213_ruth_bader_ginsburg_gty_629.jpg Of the many things to bitch about in politics,I would find an 80 year old who admits she was drunk at the State of the Union and is catatonic deciding the most important legal cases in the nation is really fucked up. Look at the bruises on her hand. She's got some health issues, no doubt. |
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Appellate court justices hear appeals. They decide the cases in front of them which come up on appeal from the trial courts. They can't just haul off and write opinions on whatever interests them. If no gun/2A case came up to his court on appeal, what is he supposed to do? Nothing. But I'll pass and move on to the next one. 
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