Supreme Court nominee stakes out independence from Trump
Source: Reuters
Tue Mar 21, 2017 | 10:33am EDT
Supreme Court nominee stakes out independence from Trump
By Lawrence Hurley and Andrew Chung | WASHINGTON
Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's U.S. Supreme Court pick, said on Tuesday he would have no trouble ruling against the president as he tried to stake out his independence amid concerns by Democrats that he would be beholden to the man who nominated him.
With the ideological balance of the Supreme Court at stake, the Senate Judiciary Committee opened the second day of its confirmation hearing for Gorsuch, a conservative federal appeals court judge from Colorado. Republicans, who control Congress, have praised Gorsuch, 49, as highly qualified for a lifetime appointment as a justice.
Chuck Grassley, the panel's Republican chairman, asked Gorsuch "whether you'd have any trouble ruling against a president who appointed you."
"That's a softball, Mr. Chairman," Gorsuch said. "I have no difficulty ruling against or for any party, other than based on what the law and facts in the particular case require. And I'm heartened by the support I have received from people who recognize that there's no such thing as a Republican judge or a Democratic judge. We just have judges in this country."
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-court-gorsuch-idUSKBN16S10L?il=0
jrthin
(4,837 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,382 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,631 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)iluvtennis
(19,876 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Disqualified for bald-faced lying?
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bucolic_frolic
(43,311 posts)Regulation, the environment, women's rights, privacy and even property rights
are the issues for this nominee
We lose on everything if he is confirmed
Demsrule86
(68,696 posts)which may mean his removal down the road.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)Let's go back in some other hearings and listen to BS to see where we have gotten since these three have been put on this bench.
And lets not forget that all three of these racist voted to strike down the Voting Rights Act, and if you watched (I didn't) saw in news coverage two of them put a bible on sexual predator racist hand and swear him into office, and the other that discriminates if you are gay --------------go figure
F*** this
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)I don't trust him one bit even though he is trying to sound objective. He sounds rather condescending or patronizing in the way he explains complicated matters, like he is suggesting, "There, there, children, everything will be OK."
I haven't caught all of it this morning, but I hope some of the democrats will cut through his slick facade.
FakeNoose
(32,777 posts)lark
(23,158 posts)He is a traitor to the working class and a tool of the rich and the right wing. Just say no, Dems, over and over.