Lauren McCauley at CommonDreams writes—With Rallies and Warnings, Opposition Calls on Dems to Block 'Supremely Extreme' Gorsuch:
Gorsuch's judicial record has been consistently anti-worker, anti-women, and pro-corporate. Countering the oft-repeated idea that Gorsuch is a "relatively mainstream" selection, the Indivisible Movement has published a series of primer documents on the judge's "supremely extreme" rulings and opinions and is urging voters to call their senators. [...]
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) wrote Monday that time and again Gorsuch has shown "a remarkable ability to shape and re-shape legal arguments in ways that benefit large corporations and disadvantage ordinary people seeking justice," repeatedly siding with the "rights" of corporations over women, consumers, and workers.
Further, she noted in the Boston Globe op-ed that his nomination is the latest assault within "a deliberate strategy by powerful interests to turn our courts over to the highest bidder." [...]
A former student of Gorsuch's sent a letter to judiciary committee chairman Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and ranking Democratic member Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) on Friday warning that as a professor at the University of Colorado Law School, Gorsuch said that "many women" abuse maternity benefits. Thus, he reasoned that it is legal for a future employer to ask female interviewees about their pregnancy and family plans to "protect themselves," as attorney Jennifer Sisk put it, "against their female employees."
Emails uncovered by The Nation's Ari Berman also highlight Gorsuch's praise and interest in the work of Hans von Spakovsky, an attorney who, according to Berman, has "been instrumental in spreading the myth of widespread voter fraud and backing new restrictions to make it harder to vote."
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
“The problem with corrupt, corporate, incompetent government is corruption, corporatism and incompetence, not government.”
~Jerome a Paris, 2004
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BLAST FROM THE PAST
At Daily Kos on this date in 2012—Mitt Romney may not be in this race to make money, but he is in it to protect wealth:
Mitt Romney's response to a questioner at an Illinois campaign event asking about his Goldman Sachs investments is less obvious as an out-of-touch-rich-guy moment than the $10,000 bet or the "couple of Cadillacs" his wife drives, but, like those statements, it conveys just how deeply embedded in a life of privilege Romney is:>
"I can assure you, I am not in this race to make money. I've already made enough," Romney said to the questioner who said Romney holds up to $50 million in investments in Goldman Sachs. "I'm not embarrassed about being successful, but I'm embarrassed for people who think there is something wrong with that."
In a direct sense, it's probably true that Romney isn't running for president to get a Fox News paycheck after he loses, or even to lower his own tax rate—though in fact Romney's tax plan does lower taxes on the rich. But even if Romney hasn't given an instant's thought to what being president, or the Republican nominee, would do for his personal wealth, he's made clear time and time again that his values, the values he would try to write into law, are that wealth and in particular the Wall Street way of becoming wealthy are superior and should be protected from taxes and regulations.
For those of us in the 99 percent, it doesn't really matter whether Mitt Romney would give Goldman Sachs free rein to operate unregulated because it would personally enrich Mitt Romney or because he just thinks it's right that Wall Street should control the economy without being limited in any way by the government. Either way, the outcome is the same.
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