Judge Neil Gorsuch, Donald Trump’s nominee to the the United States Supreme Court, is an excellent choice to succeed Antonin Scalia. Like the late justice, his approach to the Constitution is wonderfully constitutional, as he affirmed in his remarks Tuesday evening ~
“It is for Congress, not the courts to write new laws,” Gorsuch said. “A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge, stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands.”
Source: Washington Free Beacon
Judge Gorsuch began his career clerking for Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy. Later, he was a high-ranking official in the George W. Bush Justice Department. And he was apparently so well-respected ten years ago that he was unanimously confirmed to his current position as an appellate judge with the 10th Circuit in Denver. Why even the audacious Barack Hussein Obama approved!
You wouldn’t know it from the lefties’ loud protestations in the last few days, but Democrats had no problem at all with Neil Gorsuch ten years ago. Here’s the group (via Fox News) of Democrat senators – past and present – who voted to confirm him to that Federal Appellate Court in 2006 ~
• Barack Obama
• Joe Biden
• Hillary Clinton
• John Kerry
• Charles Schumer (NY)
• Ron Wyden (OR)
• Dianne Feinstein (CA)
• Patrick Leahy (VT)
• Patty Murray (WA)
• Dick Durbin (IL)
• Jack Reed (RI)
• Bill Nelson (FL)
• Tom Carper (DE)
• Debbie Stabenow (MI)
• Maria Cantwell (WA)
• Bob Menendez (NJ)
But suddenly ~
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said Wednesday he has “serious doubts” about Gorsuch. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., issued a scathing statement citing Gorsuch’s stance on assisted suicide, and saying nobody who believes individual rights are “reserved to the people” can support his nomination.
Good grief 
If these hypocrites weren’t playing partisan politics – and of course if the Dems actually cared about selecting a justice with fidelity to the Constitution (as opposed to someone who would legislate from the bench) the Gorsuch confirmation would be a slam-dunk.
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Related:
Democrats fuming over Gorsuch backed him in 2006
Democrats Demand That Gorsuch Be ‘Mainstream,’ Won’t Explain What That Means
The best thing about Neil Gorsuch? His stance on religious liberty for ALL Americans ~
What sets Gorsuch’s bravado on religious liberty apart is his robust and proper understanding of the Establishment Clause [Which is where the whole separation-of-church-and-state went off the rails].
This is, of course, one of the most bastardized and confused portions of the Bill of Rights. As Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah (A, 100%) points out in his 2015 book, “Our Lost Constitution,” what was meant to keep the federal government from creating a state religion has – because of bad decisions and cultural platitudes – is now falsely understood as the “separation of church and state.”
In reality, James Madison articulated the purpose of the Establishment Clause succinctly during a House floor debate over the First Amendment in 1789: “Congress should not establish a religion, and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contrary to their conscience.”
In our current context, however, this understanding has led to the wrong-but-popular belief that the Establishment Clause somehow mandates that any just laws that remotely smell like religious ones are unconstitutional (abortion, marriage, etc.) and – even more commonly – that all religion imagery should be scrubbed from any public space.
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Enter Gorsuch – on cue, enter pro-Democratic media
