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Gorsuch sworn-in as Supreme Court justice ahead of key cases
A a major campaign promise completed by President Trump!
Gorsuch sworn-in as Supreme Court justice ahead of key cases
Judge Neil Gorsuch took the first of two oaths to be sworn in as the newest Supreme Court justice Monday, having survived a grueling confirmation process where he faced Democrats still angry over Republicans' blockade of former President Barack Obama's nominee last year.Gorsuch took the Constitutional Oath in a private ceremony, administered by Chief Justice John Roberts in the Supreme Court’s Justice’s Conference Room.
He was accompanied by his wife Louise, who held the Bible, and his two daughters. That oath will be followed by a public ceremony at the White House where Justice Anthony Kennedy – Gorsuch’s former boss – will administer the Judicial Oath.Gorsuch takes the seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, who died in February last year, and whom Gorsuch has been compared favorably to by conservatives hopeful for another originalist on the court.Gorsuch is likely to cast a deciding vote in a number of high-profile cases, which in part explains the terse and partisan hearing the 49-year-old faced. The high stakes led Republicans to trigger the “nuclear option” last week to kill the 60-vote filibuster threshold for Supreme Court nominees.
Here’s a preview of what the soon-to be Justice Gorsuch will be looking at:
Trinity Lutheran Church of Columbia, Inc. v. Pauley
Weaver v. Massachusetts and Davila v. Davis
Maslenjak v. U.S.
California Public Employees' Retirement System v. ANZ Securities, Inc.
“We hold these truths to be self-evident,” former vice president Biden said during a campaign event in Texas on Monday. "All men and women created by — you know, you know, the thing.”
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Re: Gorsuch sworn-in as Supreme Court justice ahead of key cases
Common was especially impressed with Gorsuch as a jurist when he wrote that opinion about that case about that thing where he said that stuff.
BTW, a "grueling confirmation process"?
You mean sitting for a few hours of hearings before a confirmation guaranteed by a GOP majority in the senate?
Not exactly the charge of the light brigade now, was it?
" A major campaign promise ".
" I promise to nominate judges to the court,,, like every president before me has done"
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We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Gorsuch sworn-in as Supreme Court justice ahead of key cases
Funny thing about SCOTUS justices is that you really never know what you are going to get until cases get in front of them.
Justice David Souter was nominated by President George H.W. Bush and thought to be a conservative justice when confirmed.
By the time he retired in 2009, he was a solid member of the court's liberal voting bloc.
John Roberts is clearly a conservative, and he was the deciding vote in keeping the ACA on the books.
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Re: Gorsuch sworn-in as Supreme Court justice ahead of key cases
For some people it's not about how they rule on a specific issue, it's about their team got to pick the man or woman instead of the other team getting to do it. The Garland thing made that obvious and transparent.
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Re: Gorsuch sworn-in as Supreme Court justice ahead of key cases
That's an excellent point Fred. Some people approach this and everything else based on the team jerseys.
Hopefully the justices will prove more thoughtful than that
We live in a time in which decent and otherwise sensible people are surrendering too easily to the hectoring of morons or extremists.
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Re: Gorsuch sworn-in as Supreme Court justice ahead of key cases
TheLagerLad wrote:
Funny thing about SCOTUS justices is that you really never know what you are going to get until cases get in front of them.
Justice David Souter was nominated by President George H.W. Bush and thought to be a conservative justice when confirmed.
By the time he retired in 2009, he was a solid member of the court's liberal voting bloc.
John Roberts is clearly a conservative, and he was the deciding vote in keeping the ACA on the books.
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