Justice Gorsuch Accused of Campaigning for Senator Mitch McConnell

[wvit1001]

Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch has been accused of campaigning for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Lawyer and writer Jessica Pieklo leveled the accusation against Gorsuch in a series of Twitter updates yesterday. Her initial tweet reads, “Neil Gorsuch is campaigning for Mitch McConnell which is totally appropriate for a member of SCOTUS.”

That tweet links to an Associated Press article in the Daily Camera. The article focuses on a speech Gorsuch gave in Louisville, Kentucky about why it’s important that judges have a limited and conservative role in deciding what the law is.

Louisville is McConnell’s hometown and he was in the audience for the speech–a few feet away from the Supreme Court Justice. The speech was given at the University of Louisville, which is McConnell’s alma matter. And, before addressing the crowd, Gorsuch was introduced by the Senate’s top Republican.

McConnell said, of Gorsuch, “I could not have been happier [when he was nominated.] I knew he’d be great for our country.”

Gorsuch’s appearance with McConnell is apparently one of many as two are touring the Bluegrass State together. Later that same night, the pair held an event at the University of Kentucky in Lexington.



https://lawnewz.com/high-profile/justice-neil-gorsuch-accused-of-campaigning-for-senator-mitch-mcconnell/

[captain_kook]

Looks like Gorsuch repays his benefactors.

Gorsuch is in another judge's rightful seat at SCOTUS
thanks o McConnell's treachery.

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[dont-blameme]

Just who would that rightful judge be oh brilliant one?

[wvit1001]

someone who didn't campaign for a senator.

[captain_kook]

When the GOP stole Merrick Garland's Supreme Court seat, they set ...


a new precedent:

Preventing the President from doing his job
for one year out of each four-year term.

That could and probably will come back to haunt the GOP.



www.latimes.com/opinion/.../la-ed-supreme-court-nomination-20170131-story.html






Jan 31, 2017 -
The outrageous obstruction of Merrick Garland's nomination to the Supreme Court —

the 10-month-long stonewall by Senate Republicans

[duke_john]

Heck, they're just talking about their grandkids.