Exclusive: President Trump's Supreme Court Pick, Confirmed
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Source: Independent Journal Review
Two high-ranking administration sources have confirmed to Independent Journal Review that President Donald Trump's Supreme Court pick is Colorado Judge Neil Gorsuch.
Speaking on background, an administration source instrumental to the SCOTUS selection process tells IJR, Yes. It is Gorsuch. 100 percent. The Hardiman thing is a head fake. Thomas Hardiman is the other Judge Trump was considering for the vacancy, who is also in Washington, D.C.
A second source within the Trump administration confirmed IJR's reporting.
Gorsuch, at the age of 49, will become one of the youngest SCOTUS appointments in history. Gorsuch reportedly cried when he found out about Justice Scalia's death. The Colorado native attended Harvard Law with former President Barack Obama and is a firm Constitutionalist.
Gorsuch has made some past statements that seem to indicate how he would make major Supreme Court decisions. Most notably, he has praised the late Justice Antonin Scalias dedication to textualism, or the interpretation of laws based on the actual text rather than trying to decipher the intent of lawmakers or other potential consequences.
To the delight of Trump supporters and conservatives, Gorsuch has also routinely sided in favor of religious liberty. He famously sided with Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters of the Poor when they claimed Obamacares contraceptive mandate violated their religious beliefs.
Read more: http://ijr.com/2017/01/790802-exclusive-president-trumps-supreme-court-pick-confirmed/
Great. A very young Scalia fanboy as Trump's SCOTUS pick (probably).
bettyellen
(47,209 posts)FBaggins
(26,714 posts)They were able to hold things up indefinitely because they were in the majority.
Gore1FL
(21,090 posts)pkdu
(3,977 posts)While Gorsuch has a longer Washington resume than other judges considered by Trump, his familys experience in the city was a searing one.
Gorsuchs mother, Anne Burford Gorsuch, ran the Environmental Protection Agency at the outset of the Reagan administration. She was forced to resign in 1983, facing a criminal investigation and a House contempt of Congress citation over records related to alleged political favoritism in toxic-waste cleanups. She maintained her innocence and was never charged.
elleng
(130,698 posts)whenever I hear the name Gorsuch.
alfredo
(60,071 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,024 posts)SAD!
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Gee, that's fun!
alfredo
(60,071 posts)bdamomma
(63,788 posts)without congress approval??
He just wants a religious nationalist right wing state no liberal ideas whatsoever.
where is the outrage on all this???
elleng
(130,698 posts)and the Senate will do what it does.
bdamomma
(63,788 posts)so is justice going prevail in any of this???
Ligyron
(7,615 posts)as we watch every hard-fought liberty and right evaporate one by one over the next few decades.
Trump and Putin and the clueless GOP all following Dugin's playbook.
frazzled
(18,402 posts)Siding with Hobby Lobby and Little Sisters is religious tyranny over others. (They are free to choose for themselves about contraception: not for others.)
Religious liberty would be allowing people from all faiths equally to partake us US immigration.
FairWinds
(1,717 posts)is phony as hell. (and that IJR source is too)
tavernier
(12,364 posts)He better hope trump doesn't catch him displaying any emotions that wreak of humanity.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)duplicate of http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141685214