You like him, you really really like him. Personally I hate the dog & pony show between Congress and any presidential nominee, especially when it comes to a SCOTUS choice. SCOTUS is not doing the work of a party or president, it’s not an automatic favor vote, as we’ve seen with Justice Roberts and oh how the Right went crazy on those votes – PB/TK
‘Disheartening’? Some liberals warm up to Trump Supreme Court pick. – Harry Bruinius Christian Science Monitor Staff writer
NEW YORK—When Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch chose the words “disheartening” and “demoralizing” to describe attacks on the integrity of the federal judiciary this week, many took them to be a cautious but not-so-subtle message to Senate Democrats.
Navigating the nor’easters of Washington’s confirmation process means winning over at least eight Democrats. And with those two words, Judge Gorsuch appeared to be distancing himself from President Trump, carefully asserting his own independence and demonstrating a willingness to stand up to the man who nominated him.
Yet even before the saga over the meaning and original intent of the nominee’s words began to unfold on Thursday – with President Trump arguing that the media was misinterpreting his words – many liberals were already making this case for the deeply conservative jurist, calling Mr. Trump’s nominee one of the most independent-minded judges in the country.
It is a difficult pivot for many Democrats to make. Republican senators’ refusal even to schedule a hearing for President Obama’s nominee, Judge Merrick Garland, last year still rankles. But some are wondering how far to take the fight when Gorsuch, in some ways, presents a relatively attractive conservative option.
“Of all the judges President Trump could have nominated, Gorsuch seems to me as good as anybody, liberal or conservative, who would stand up to unlawful actions by the Trump administration, if need be,” says Daniel Epps, a professor at Washington University Law School in St. Louis, who puts himself on the liberal side of jurisprudence.
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