Supreme Court Pick Neil Gorsuch
Shorter – Anti abortion, gun lover, religious freedom nut and a lover of pain and suffering as he is against assisted suicide and euthanasia.
‘Born August 29, 1967, is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit’.
Gorsuch is a proponent of originalism, the idea that the Constitution should be interpreted as the Founding Fathers would have interpreted it.’
Because guys who have been dead for over 200 years would know how our laws combine with modern technology.
‘And of textualism, the idea that statutes should be interpreted literally, without considering the legislative history and underlying purpose of the law’.
‘Gorsuch advocates a broad definition of religious freedom and sided with Christian employers and religious organizations in the cases of Burwell v. Hobby Lobby and Zubik v. Burwell’.
Religion –
***’Gorsuch held that the requirement in the Affordable Care Act that employers provide insurance coverage for contraceptives without a co-pay violated the rights of those employers that object to use of contraceptives on religious grounds’.
Oh boy. Religious Freedom.
***’Gorsuch took the view that displaying a religious monument, such as the Ten Commandments, did not obligate a governmental authority to display other offered monuments, such as those from other religions’.
So here come the Nativity Scenes in front of EVERY public building.
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Gun Rights –
***’Gorsuch concurred with the opinion that “The only statutory element separating innocent (even constitutionally protected) gun possession from criminal conduct in §§ 922(g) and 924(a) is a prior felony conviction. So the presumption that the government must prove mens rea here applies with full force.”
So if a woman has a restraining order against a husband, ex or boyfriend and he goes out and buys a gun, unless the GOvernment has proved that he is a felon – his Constitutional right to own a gun is protected.
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Death –
***’In a 2003 case, Gorsuch denied requests of death-row inmates seeking to escape executions’.
But…….How dare you try to end your life even if suffering –
***’In his book The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, Gorsuch argued for “retaining the laws banning assisted suicide and euthanasia … based on the idea that all human beings are intrinsically valuable and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong”
So live long and live drugged up or in pain but live you will.
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Abortion –
‘Gorsuch has never had the opportunity to write an opinion on Roe v. Wade. However, based on his opinions expressed in his books opposing euthanasia and the taking of human life, people on both sides of the abortion debate presume he holds a “pro-life” stance’.
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States Rights –
*** “a predictably socially conservative judge who tends to favor state power over federal power”.
The return of ‘nullification’.
The Last Of The Millenniums 