SCOTUS Nominee Gorsuch
The SAF is impressed with him.
NSSF backs his nomination. Not once but twice.
David Hardy notes a gun case (felon in possession) that Gorsuch weighed in on.
So, he looks pretty good on gun rights. But my favorite thing about him so far is his dissent in a case where a court ruled that jailing a teenager for fake burps was just fine:
If a seventh grader starts trading fake burps for laughs in gym class, whats a teacher to do? Order extra laps? Detention? A trip to the principals office? Maybe. But then again, maybe thats too old school. Maybe today you call a police officer. And maybe today the officer decides that, instead of just escorting the now compliant thirteen year old to the principals office, an arrest would be a better idea. So out come the handcuffs and off goes the child to juvenile detention. My colleagues suggest the law permits exactly this option and they offer ninety-four pages explaining why they think thats so. Respectfully, I remain unpersuaded.
I’m starting to like this guy.
February 1st, 2017 at 8:27 pm
I keep hoping for Alex Kozinski, but I guess the rest of the country isn’t ready for a judge that admits to liking porn.
February 1st, 2017 at 10:07 pm
Here’s a questionable opinion he didn’t dissent on:
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/01/judge_neil_gorsuch_some_cause_for_concern.html
Not a poison pill, but I hope he gets grilled on how strongly he will protect 2nd Amendment rights.
February 2nd, 2017 at 12:30 am
All the right people I know of like him.
I’m only aware of one opinion from a liberal that wasn’t “STOP –fill-in-the-blank–“, and that too was positive – in the New York Times, no less.
I fully expect an attempted Borking – and I’m sure every female he ever crossed path with since he turned 18 is getting grilled right now. “Are you **sure** he didn’t even leer at you?”. But he definitely seems worth rooting for.
February 2nd, 2017 at 12:17 pm
One good dissent does not make a great jurist.
But a few majority opinions will.
How old is Kennedy? 80 years old.
How old is Ginsburg? 83 years old.
How old is Breyer? 78 years old.
How old is Thomas? 68 years old. (And a clearer thinking Constitutionalist than any of his elders.)
Trump may be appointing more Justices in the next few years. Yay.
http://www.thegreenpapers.com/Hx/SupremeCourt.html
February 2nd, 2017 at 2:26 pm
Judging by the way the Left hates him he must be good.
February 2nd, 2017 at 11:29 pm
“The historical reality of the Second Amendment’s protection of the right to keep and bear arms is not that it protects the right to shoot deer. It protects the right to shoot tyrants, and it protects the right to shoot at them effectively, with the same instruments they would use upon us.” –Judge Andrew Napolitano
Trump sought Napolitano’s counsel re: a selection and reportedly considered him. This quote demonstrates a correct Constitutional perspective on the 2nd a Amendment. But Napolitano is 66 and he’s written a lot. Quotes like the one above would alarm the leftist authoritarians who fear freedom!
February 4th, 2017 at 10:58 am
As to the Constitution he has said he is not an evolutionist but a constructionist. Excellent.
He is Scalia V2…maybe even X2. Also excellent.
February 4th, 2017 at 3:05 pm
@JTC, yes! Although justices should be independent of the President who appointed them or any President, regarding the Law, they are to “be bound thereby” (Article VI, Section 2). The Constitution is a legal contract and so:
“The true key for the construction of everything doubtful in a law is the intention of the law-makers. This is most safely gathered from the words, but may be sought also in extraneous circumstances provided they do not contradict the express words of the law.” –Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin, 1808. ME 12:59
“On every question of construction carry ourselves back to the time when the Constitution was adopted, recollect the spirit manifested in the debates and instead of trying what meaning may be squeezed out of the text or invented against it, conform to the probable one in which it was passed.” –Thomas Jefferson to William Johnson, 1823. ME 15:449