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Trump's Supreme Court Announcement Thread
Topic Started: Jan 31 2017, 08:41 PM (137 Views)
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Well, give the man credit: he's turned what is normally a solemn affair into an Apprentice-style media scrum....

(The Guardian) President Donald Trump will shortly announce his pick for the supreme court vacancy created by the death of staunchly conservative justice Antonin Scalia in February last year.

Such nominations are rarely without controversy, of course: Barack Obama nominated Merrick Garland for the same vacancy in March 2016, warning Republicans that any delays in confirming his appointment would cause a loss of faith in the supreme court, the justice system and democracy. Garland did not become a supreme court judge.

But tonight’s announcement takes the circus to a new level: both presumed finalists – though let’s not assume there is no Trump joker card waiting to be played – have reportedly been summoned to the White House for a live broadcast announcement at 8pm ET, during which the president will tell one of the pair that he is hired.

It is not clear whether Neil Gorsuch and Thomas Hardiman, judges in Colorado and Pennsylvania respectively, themselves know who is to be handed the prize. Perhaps they will find out with the rest of us – though leaked reports suggest Gorsuch is the frontrunner.
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(The Guardian) A short walk from the White House, protesters gathered on the steps of the supreme court to demand that Democratic senators block the appointment of Gorsuch.

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A coalition of liberal groups had planned the rally in advance of Trump’s announcement to spotlight the opposition to appointing a nominee who is conservative and who Trump said would repeal Roe v Wade, a decision legalizing abortion in the US.

At the protest, Eleanor Smeal, head of the Feminist Majority, said Gorsuch was “the worst nightmare” for women and minorities who have worked to advance civil and equal rights, and called the justice’s adherence to originalism an “abomination” that would take the country back hundreds of years:

We will not go back. We’ve worked too hard …

There is no way we’re returning to a 1789 interpretation of the constitution.
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(The Guardian) Senator Tim Kaine – Hillary Clinton’s would-be VP pick – is biding his time on a yes or no for Gorsuch: The importance of an appointment to the highest court in the land and the duty of upholding and defending our constitution demand a higher threshold for confirmation than for any other appointee.

The actions of the Trump administration over the past week raise the stakes to an even higher level.

In considering Judge Gorsuch’s nomination and observing his confirmation hearing, I intend to carefully scrutinize his temperament and record, particularly on civil rights and other constitutional guarantees.
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(The Guardian) Courtesy of the New York Times, here’s new Scotus nominee Neil Gorsuch on the “gross mistreatment” of judicial confirmations by the Senate: In a 2002 article … Mr. Gorsuch criticized the Senate’s handling of judicial confirmations. “Some of the most impressive judicial nominees are grossly mistreated,” he said, mentioning two candidates for the federal appeals court in Washington who he said were “widely considered to be among the finest lawyers of their generation”.

One was John G Roberts Jr, who went on to become chief justice of the United States. The other was Judge Merrick B Garland, who was confirmed to the appeals court in 1997 after a long delay, but whose nomination to the supreme court last year was blocked by Senate Republicans.
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(The Guardian) Speaker Paul Ryan, I think, takes the prize for most effusive response to Gorsuch’s nomination, calling him a “phenomenal” pick: President Trump has fulfilled his pledge to nominate a judge who has a demonstrated loyalty to the constitution and a strong commitment to life. He is a phenomenal nominee for the supreme court.

His belief in judicial restraint will serve the court – and the country – very well. I also commend his career-long fight to uphold the constitutional right of religious liberty.

I am confident my colleagues in the Senate will confirm Judge Gorsuch.
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--trump nominates neil gorsuch to the supreme court (Oliver Roeder, Five Thirty Eight - 31 Jan. 2017)
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(The Guardian) Should Democrats filibuster against Gorsuch?
--The addition of Gorsuch is unlikely to tip the balance of the court, the logic goes, given that he looks to be an almost perfect ideological replacement for the late conservative stalwart Scalia. But the notion that Democrats should hold their fire in case Trump has the opportunity to fill another, more pivotal, seat down the road is naive given recent history.

It’s not an inconceivable or even unlikely scenario that Trump will have such an opportunity. But Democrats would be fools to stand down now in hopes that Republicans, admiring their magnanimity and bipartisan spirit would somehow reward them at some unspecified future date.

Caving to Trump’s interests without a fight would take a wind out of the sails of the nascent resistance movement rocking our country. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned under Obama’s tenure and over the course of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, it’s that, at least in this political climate, playing nice and hoping you’ll be rewarded down the road is a fool’s errand.
-Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/jan/31/neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-nomination-democrats-filibuster
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--Hope you like my nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch for the United States Supreme Court. He is a good and brilliant man, respected by all. (Donald J. Trump, President of the United States - 31 Jan. 2017)
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(The Guardian) Associated Press reports that the White House is “planning a major outreach effort” to secure Gorsuch’s confirmation to the supreme court: Press secretary Sean Spicer says the White House is planning a series of briefings with House and Senate staff about Trump’s pick.

Gorsuch is expected to travel on Wednesday to Capitol Hill to begin meetings with lawmakers, including Senate judiciary committee members.

Spicer says the White House is “going to work really, really hard” to get Trump’s pick confirmed.


And here are some of those judiciary committee members preparing themselves:

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--My fellow members of the Judiciary Committee and I are ready to get to work to get Judge Gorsuch confirmed. (Sen. Mike Lee, R-UT - 31 Jan. 2017)
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(The Guardian) Gorsuch, like late Justice Scalia, describes himself as a strict textualist in his interpretation of the constitution.

His biggest difference with Scalia comes in the field of administrative law, an area that is sleepy for most lay people but determines the scope of much government action.

The Trump nominee has been a critic of “Chevron deference”, a doctrine that gives administrative agencies significant latitude with how they interpret federal statutes. His views, which are shared by a number of conservative legal scholars, would significantly weaken the federal government and allow the courts to override agency actions on issues ranging from immigration to healthcare to the environment.
-Read more: https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/chevron_deference
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--Top questions on @realDonaldTrump's #SupremeCourt nominee tonight (Google Trends, 31 Jan. 2017)
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(The Guardian) Dan Pfeiffer, a former senior adviser to President Obama, is not the only person to be querying why Trump’s sons Eric and Don Jr – who now, according to their father, have “complete and total control” of his businesses, in a much-criticised attempt to answer questions over conflicts of interest – were present at the White House for the Scotus announcement today:

--How did the Trump boys climb over the impenetrable firewall set up between Trump's government and his businesses? (Dan Pfeiffer, Fmr. Senior White House Advisor - 31 Jan. 2017)
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