5. This push to blame a judge for attempting to enforce a law on record is an indication that people have a fundamental misunderstanding of the role a justice is supposed to play. They don't make laws. They interpret them. If you have a problem with the letter of the law, in this case blame the assholes that wrote it, not the Judgewho's enforcing it. Or, you know. Doing his job. Judge's only get to strike down what is unconstitutional, not what's dumb. We have an entire legislative process for that. But, when you have sitting senators (Kamala Harris making another appearance, she really is a freaking idiot) saying, "Judge Gorsuch has consistently valued narrow legalisms over real lives." Oh. So in other words you mean as a Judge he's followed the freaking LAW which is exactly what he's supposed to do. Again, this is the system we've had for 250 years. Unless something is blatantly unconstitutional, you don't go through the judiciary to get a law changed, that is the job of the legislative branch.
In my humble non legal opinion, I think there's a lot of grey area in Law. You can interpret to the letter of the law or use sound judgement as to what you think the law means. Either way is an option or use a little bit of both. Gorsuch , to me is a mean spirited letter of the law guy and quite frankly, I do not like him and do not feel he should be a SCOTUS Justice.
Consistently, throughout his career, Gorsuch has gone against the little guy even in dissenting opinions. He's fairly consistent with this. For instance, the Madden/Transam Trucking case. The guy was freezing to freaking death and he still ruled in favor of the company firing the guy, letter of the law my poopchute ( again he just kind of pisses me off for some reason). The law wasn't written to protect a company in such extenuating circumstances.
I suppose if you ( I mean Gorsuch not "you") want to be a freaking mean poopchute then sure side with the company. Also, he has a ruling overturned by the SCOTUS a few years back, I don't know remember exactly which one but it was similar to the Madden/Transam case and the SCOTUS unanimously overturned that. Judge Roberts wrote an opinion on it.
The fact the SCOTUS overturned one of his decisions isn't my issue, lots of judges have that happen. My issue is once again he sided with the corporation in a rather obtuse way.
It's my opinion he is a mean spirited complete and utter douchebag and I want no part of him on the SCOTUS. I wasn't too particularly fond of Scalia, at first, but he was a genuinely nice well informed Justice. While he adhered to a strict adherence to Constitutional Law, there were times where he at least budged, I think the case I am trying to remember that Roberts wrote an opinion on was one of those times.
Also, he was great friends with many of the people he consistently dissented. That more than anything is a measure of character. I do not think Gorsuch is of such character. It's my opinion only, I do not like him one bit.
I will be on record that I like judges to be more liberal and for politicians to be more conservative/libertarian. Unfortunately, my Utopia will probably never ever happen.
