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    Thumbs up Trump appointed SCOTUS judge joins liberal bloc again

    Moderate Republicans/some liberals had cheered when Trump apointed a CFR member as SCOTUS judge. Now on another win for liberals and progressives under MAGA's bold leadership:

    Justice Gorsuch Joins Liberals To Deal Victory For Criminal Defendants


    Kevin Daley Supreme Court correspondent
    June 24, 2019 11:38 AM ET
    Justice Neil Gorsuch joined with the Supreme Court’s liberal bloc to deal victory for criminal defendants Monday, striking down a federal law that punishes gun crimes as unconstitutionally vague.

    The law at issue authorizes heightened penalties for individuals who use firearms to a commit a “crime of violence.”

    “Only the people’s elected representatives in Congress have the power to write new federal criminal laws,” Gorsuch wrote in the majority opinion. “And when Congress exercises that power, it has to write statutes that give ordinary people fair warning about what the law demands of them.”
    “Vague laws transgress both of those constitutional requirements,” Gorsuch added. “They hand off the legislature’s responsibility for defining criminal behavior to unelected prosecutors and judges, and they leave people with no sure way to know what consequences will attach to their conduct.”
    Monday’s case involved defendants Maurice Davis and Andre Glover, who were charged and convicted with robbery and conspiracy arising from a string of gas station robberies in Texas in June 2014. Prosecutors also charged the pair under the heightened penalty law because they brandished a short-barreled shotgun in the course of those robberies. (RELATED: Racial Bias Runs Deep In Supreme Court’s Latest Decision)
    The Supreme Court said Monday that the definition of “crime of violence” was too ill-defined to be constitutional. Under the heightened penalty law, a crime of violence is any offense that “by its nature, involves a substantial risk that physical force against the person or property of another may be used.”
    Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh attend the State of the Union address on February 5, 2019. (Doug Mills/Pool/Getty Images)

    Gorsuch has joined his liberal colleagues to strike down vague statutes before


    https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/24/g...ls-gun-crimes/



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    I agree with Gorsuch. How are violent gas station robberies under the purview of the federal government? The states should be prosecuting these crimes.

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    I see no problem with striking down vague laws.

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    Poor foolish troll, Gorsuch is right.

    Thank You DJTvsg For Gorsuch!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Poor foolish troll, Gorsuch is right.

    Thank You DJTvsg For Gorsuch!
    Gorsuch is great. Is Kavanaugh?
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    Yet that scaffold sways the future, and, behind the dim unknown,
    Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above his own.
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    Quote Originally Posted by axiomata View Post
    Gorsuch is great. Is Kavanaugh?
    Kavanaugh is better than Kennedy who wouldn't have retired if Trump hadn't let him choose Kavanaugh to replace him.
    Never attempt to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and annoys the pig.

    Robert Heinlein

    Give a man an inch and right away he thinks he's a ruler

    Groucho Marx

    I love mankind…it’s people I can’t stand.

    Linus, from the Peanuts comic

    You cannot have liberty without morality and morality without faith

    Alexis de Torqueville

    Those who fail to learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
    Those who learn from the past are condemned to watch everybody else repeat it

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post

    Thank You DJTvsg For Gorsuch!
    ^This.

    Big win for MAGA and LGBTQ Civil Rights, thanks to Gorsuch's historic vote.
    That said, Christian conservatives could deliver powerful political response for making them look 'Gullibes 4.0' and even restart something like DOMA in 2020.


    Gorsuch’s Supreme Court opinion for LGBTQ rights sends a shudder through conservative ranks


    June 17, 2020
    WASHINGTON — Justice Neil M. Gorsuch was President Trump’s first choice for the Supreme Court and a conservative’s dream — until he wrote this week’s landmark opinion extending civil rights protections to LGBTQ employees nationwide.
    The ruling sent a shudder through the ranks of conservative activists and columnists, some of whom saw signs of another betrayal by a Republican-appointed justice who ended up siding at times with liberals on key issues.
    “This was not judging. This was legislating — a brute force attack on our constitutional system,” said Carrie Severino, president of the Judicial Crisis Network, which funded ads supporting Gorsuch’s confirmation in 2017.
    Gorsuch spoke for a 6-3 majority in declaring that the 1964 Civil Rights Act’s ban on employment discrimination based on “sex” also covers lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and ***** workers. “An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law,” he wrote in Bostock vs. Clayton County. Previously, Title VII of the act was seen as protecting women from gender discrimination.
    latimes.com/politics/story/2020-06-17/gorsuch-supreme-court-opinion-lgbtq-rights-shakes-conservatives


    Gorsuch, Conservative Favorite Appointed by Trump, Leads Way on Landmark Decision
    One conservative group said the justice’s opinion in the L.G.B.T. rights case had betrayed the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia, whose seat on the court he has held since 2017.
    nytimes.com/2020/06/15/us/politics/gorsuch-supreme-court-gay-transgender-rights.html


    Donald Trump On The Issues :
    Extend Civil Rights Act to apply to gays and lesbians. (Aug 2016)



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    LGBT Activists Hate Christianity — and Want to Destroy It

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    Quote Originally Posted by Swordsmyth View Post
    Kavanaugh is better than Kennedy who wouldn't have retired if Trump hadn't let him choose Kavanaugh to replace him.
    it was basically a package deal?

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    McConnell blocks Garland, who has good odds perhaps of being our A.G

    Each time Gorsuch does something, picture nice Judge Garland to his left.

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    Senator Mitch of KY also liked ACB

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aratus View Post
    Senator Mitch of KY also liked ACB
    Sen Mitch is still very powerful.


    In related news:


    The Supreme Court finally rejected Sidney Powell's election-conspiracy-theory lawsuits

    Jacob Shamsian
    March 1, 2021

    Sidney Powell and former President Donald Trump. Getty Images
    • The Supreme Court rejected two lawsuits filed by the Trump ally Sidney Powell.
    • It extends the extraordinary losing streak for lawsuits seeking to overturn 2020 election results.
    • President Joe Biden was inaugurated more than a month ago.

    The Supreme Court on Monday formally rejected two of Sidney Powell's lawsuits seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 US election, brushing away any lingering ideas that Donald Trump would be declared the true winner.
    As Law and Crime first reported, the court didn't offer any comment while rejecting the two lawsuits. One lawsuit sought to overturn results in Arizona, the other in Wisconsin.
    Joe Biden, the winner of the presidential election, was inaugurated on January 20.
    The cases — premised on a bizarre conspiracy theory that election-technology companies were in cahoots with the regime of the late Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez to secretly flip votes from Trump to Biden — were widely expected to fail. The Supreme Court has rejected several other lawsuits seeking to overturn election results.

    businessinsider.com/supreme-court-rejects-sidney-powell-election-lawsuits-2021-3

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    So much for March 4th and.... Q


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    i think DJT = worst POTUS ever

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    Ummmmm....in the OP, the "liberals" that the Trump appointed justice joined voted to strike down a gun law. I can see why @Anti Federalist considers @enhanced_deficit a troll.
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    Quote Originally Posted by enhanced_deficit View Post
    Moderate Republicans/some liberals had cheered when Trump apointed a CFR member as SCOTUS judge. Now on another win for liberals and progressives under MAGA's bold leadership:



    https://dailycaller.com/2019/06/24/g...ls-gun-crimes/


    Justice Gorsuch is correct and he was following precedent established back in 1921:

    'Congress alone has power to define crimes against the United States. This power cannot be delegated either to the courts or to the juries of this country. * * *



    255 U.S. 81

    41 S.Ct. 298

    65 L.Ed. 516

    UNITED STATES
    v.
    L. COHEN GROCERY CO.



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