Dear Editor:
Rather than just rant for, or against, Neil Gorsuch, looking at some evidence might be helpful.
Watch Judge Gorsuch's comments at www.cnn.com/2017/01/31/politics/donald-trump-supreme-court-nominee/index.html and read the article. Pay particular attention the quote, "legislators may appeal to their own moral convictions and to claims about social utility to reshape the law as they think it should be in the future," he said. "But that judges should do none of these things in a democratic society." The thought that the liberal, self-anointed intelligentsia might no longer be able to use the federal government, especially the federal courts, as a hammer to pound their liberal doctrine into those of us who they consider to be the "irredeemable deplorables," frightens liberals. (Read the 14th Amendment and then tell me that you actually believe those who wrote it, and those in the states who approved it, would have supported it had they known it would be used by the federal government to justify legal abortion. If Roe v. Wade were overturned it would not make abortion illegal in the US, it would only leave the decision up to those in states.)
Read about some of Judge Gorsuch's opinions www.cnn.com/2017/01/31/politics/hobby-lobby-executive-power-gorsuch-key-rulings/
Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. v. Sebelius - The majority of the 10th Circuit court judges ruled that the federal government could not force Hobby Lobby to provide its employees with insurance that included contraceptive coverage. The Supreme Court upheld the ruling.
Read about the seventh-grader who Gorsuch didn't think should have been arrested for burping in class. www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2017/01/trump-supreme-court-gorsuch-234466
A CNN opinion piece: www.cnn.com/2017/02/02/opinions/gorsuch-is-a-republicans-rock-star-opinion/
Gorsuch and the environment: fortune.com/2017/03/05/gorsuch-public-lands-conservation/
When Gorsuch was being reviewed for the 10th Circuit both Joe Biden and Charles Schumer, on the Senate Judiciary Committee, voted for him. He was approved unanimously by the Senate, which included 45 Democrats. Notable Democrats who voted to approve him were; Barack Obama, John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, Diane Feinstein, Richard Durbin, Debbie Stabenow, Ron Wyden, Maria Cantwell and Bob Menendez.
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