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ck4829

(38,093 posts)
1. K&R. A government that is dismissive and even hostile to the needs and basic rights of it's people
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 03:58 PM
Apr 2017

What more could an adversary of the US, Putin for example, want out of that kind of deal?

Raster

(21,010 posts)
2. I'll be frank: I wonder if the Gorsuch opinion would have been different...
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 04:43 PM
Apr 2017

...had Mr. Maddin's color been different?

I don't like Gorsuch. I get a bad feeling from the guy, no matter his home-grown, corn-pone, folksy outward style. I think he is Scalia-wannabe in a slimmed down package.

stuffmatters

(2,580 posts)
3. Gorsuch is a soulless, sadistic judicial robot.
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 05:16 PM
Apr 2017

He even wrote a book fiercely against physician assisted suicide.

There is not one ounce of mercy, empathy or humanity displayed in his judicial history. He is the quintessential
"Plantation Judge" for what has clearly become the "Plantation Party."

bucolic_frolic

(55,817 posts)
5. Gorsuch will forever have the stain of illegitimacy if he occupies this seat stolen by Mitch
Mon Apr 3, 2017, 06:52 PM
Apr 2017

This was Obama's seat to fill

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