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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 03:39 PM Jun 2017

Senate Dem: Gorsuch, Thomas and Alito like 'horsemen of the apocalypse'

Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) on Monday called conservative Supreme Court Justices Neil Gorsuch, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas "the three horsemen of the apocalypse" waiting for a fourth justice to join their ranks.

Hirono's comments came hours after the high court decided to partially grant the Trump administration's request to lift a stay and implement his travel ban barring people from six predominantly Muslim countries from coming to the U.S. The court agreed to examine the entire executive order at a later date.

"Neil Gorsuch, who I did not support as a Supreme Court justice, he's joined two of the most conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Alito on the court to take the position that the entire injunction should have been lifted," Hirono said on MSNBC's "Andrea Mitchell Reports."

"This is like the three horsemen of the apocalypse, and they're waiting for the fourth one to come along so that they can go on their trend toward what I call our extremism," she added.

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Senate Dem: Gorsuch, Thomas and Alito like 'horsemen of the apocalypse' (Original Post) n2doc Jun 2017 OP
Gorsuch is Scalia 2.0. Raster Jun 2017 #1
Elections have consequences, don't they? Hekate Jun 2017 #2
They do Vogon_Glory Jun 2017 #3

Raster

(20,998 posts)
1. Gorsuch is Scalia 2.0.
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 04:03 PM
Jun 2017

There was a reason Gorsuch would not answer questions put to him by Dem Senators seeking to discern how he might rule.

Vogon_Glory

(9,117 posts)
3. They do
Mon Jun 26, 2017, 05:18 PM
Jun 2017

The BoBs, the Hillary-haters in the Democratic Party, as well as the "keepers of the flame" ideologues now have more reasons to be proud of themselves.



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