A Coloradan on the highest court in the land

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A Coloradan on the highest court in the land

The U.S. Supreme Court would benefit from a Western perspective

By The Denver Post Editorial Board |

PUBLISHED: February 1, 2017 at 4:27 pm | UPDATED: February 1, 2017 at 4:54 pm

 

Happily add us to those excited to see Colorado native Neil Gorsuch nominated to the U.S. Supreme Court. Among those President Donald Trump considered for the post, we held out special hope for Gorsuch. We hope his nomination is secured, even as Democrats circle the wagons of opposition to block him.

 

Recently in these pages we argued for a Gorsuch nomination. A federal judge in Denver, and a fourth-generation Coloradan, Gorsuch is a brilliant legal mind and talented writer whom observers praise for his ability to apply the law fairly and consistently. While we disagreed with his ruling in the Hobby Lobby contraception case upheld by the high court, we appreciate his desire to strictly interpret the Constitution based on the intent of our nation’s founders, even when those rulings might contradict his personal beliefs.

 

To that point, we were glad to hear him say, as he accepted the nomination in Washington Tuesday evening, “It is for Congress, not the courts, to write new laws. A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is likely a very bad judge.”

 

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The three numbers that will keep Democrats from blocking Neil Gorsuch

 

While President Trump announced his Supreme Court nominee from the west hall of the White House, somewhere in Washington Chuck Schumer was gearing up for the political dogfight of his life.

As the minority leader prepares that resistance, he needs to memorize three numbers: 78, 80, and 83

Those digits are the ages of Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the oldest liberal Supreme Court justices.

They might as well be the key code to stop nuclear proliferation in the U.S. Senate.

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Posted by Brock Townsend at Thursday, February 02, 2017