re: 5 Things You Need to Know About SCOTUS Pick Neil Gorsuch

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Fox showed a clip of protestors outside the court and they had signs that said OPPOSE at the top and a blank white spot below that.

Then they wrote in Gorsuch with a marker.

They were out there to protest anyone who was announced so when they found out they all had to write his name on their pre-made oppose signs.

I laughed out loud.

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Yep, those crazy protesters. Next thing you know an entire party caucus of U.S. Senators will be saying, before the President has even nominated anyone, that they won't even consider having hearings on any nominee, no matter who it is.

Oops, my bad. That already happened. Those protesters are insane and a disgrace, though. They are acting like Republicans.

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Isn't that Clarence Thomas?

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Thomas actually belevies in the proper ICC interpretation and I think Scalia was more focused on stare decisis so yeah you could make that argument. i think scalia was a much more social conservative, though

THIS GUY isn't the one you don't protest and blow the system up over

save that for Kennedy or RBG

man i dunno

they had the paid protesters ready with fill in the blank signs

they had the talking point ready "mainstream"

and frick i mean Nancy Pelosi was saying that Gorsuch would basically end the world last night

SUPPOSEDLY there are 7 DEMs ready to cross lines on the filibusterer but i'll beleive that when i see it

the hyper conservative Chris Hayes was even being critical of hte protesters

if the DEMs really want to use the "mainstream" talking point they may be signing their death warrant for 2018. they could probably use that line with Pryor, which is why i assume Trump picked Gorsuch as the first one. he's very vanilla, esp considering who he is replacing

DEMs want to make him seem like an extremist and outside of their mainstream views about government. the problem is that their vision of what "mainstream" is was just repudiated in November and the battles that have to be fought in 2018 are state-by-state, not national. the GOP is currently dominating in that arena

I assure you that I'm better educated than you are, my friend. And went to better schools, You're just not half as smart as you think you are.

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Your right to religious liberty extends to the point that it does not encroach on others' liberties.

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are we still talking about Hobby Lobby? that argument doesn't apply

there is no right to subsidized birth control, which is the issue in Hobby Lobby

on the flip side, the ACA mandated people to supply BC to others, even if it violated their religious beliefs

this case wasn't decided based on constitutional rights. it was decided by statutory interpretation. there is a federal law that protects religious beliefs and practices from government encroachment and that law was used to invalidate parts of the ACA

i know that Hobby Lobby is the one case that the progs have to fight against Gorsuch and that we're going to have to re-litigate it, but let's talk about teh actual facts and issues of the case and not invent platitudes to make it sound like something it wasn't

i'm just glad to know that dogs and cats will remain living apart under Gorsuch's america