The law is of course never neutral. Judge Neil Gorsuch is a Trumpian stroke of homespun Originalist competition and control, a masterful swing at the heart of our hardworking nation of working folk with very little time or money to play golf.
The Republican litmus test was carefully studied before Mr. Gorsuch was placed on Mr. Trump’s score card. He was the hole-in-1 for improving the seat of late Justice Scalia.
Justice Scalia was a 5 stroke hole at Hillcrest Country Club where the lush greens and sand traps would challenge every player, amateur or pro. But we knew the yardage the dogleg turn and the effort required to hit par. We knew at the tee we had to play smart and follow the directions of our caddie and friends.
i mean to say Judge Scalia prided himself in consistency and transparency and folksy funny expressions to show his displeasure with some legal decisions bearing down on the Supreme Court and the giant tree of American jurisprudence. My favorite was “applesauce “ however the lovely expressions of clear human emotion were often much more surprising than that.
Judge Norsuch is no such man nor legal thinker or writer.
Adding this hard right white male religious zealot who leans toward big money and big commerce to the 2 foursomes already sitting on the Supreme Court would destroy the shape of that organic tree of American jurisprudence for many decades, very difficult decades.
Judge this candidate by his past strokes his past rounds of the course. He is the elitist pro striker that has the long ball and the short game to dominate American legal decisions from the top.
No such man should be at the top of our Leader Board of American Law in the 21st Century.
Women seniors working class disabled and unemployed not to mention immigrants African-Americans and single mothers who often head households due to the normal chaos of modern life would all be left lonely and shivering outside the gates of Hillcrest Country Club of state.
Is this the right person to fill the 9th chair?