MAGA judge says Supreme Court still failing US founders

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President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment, Justice Neil Gorsuch, has a children’s book out about America’s founding — as well as some opinions on whether the current bench lives up to the founders' ideals.Gorsuch told The New York Times’ David French in an interview that the U.S. Supreme Court has a long way to go in meeting those expectations.French asked Gorsuch for his views on the connection between the founders’ ideals and the statements in Gorsuch's book “Over Ruled.” The same judge who has consistently sided with Trump over vulnerable groups like immigrants, federal employees, racial minorities and women said those who ask those questions are “allowed your theories.”“You’re allowed your theories,” Gorsuch said. “But I would say that one of the most striking and inspirational things about the American experiment, to me, is the emphasis it places on the individual and its intrinsic value. You’re not valuable as a cog and a machine to others’ ends. You have value in your own right. You are my equal. You have inalienable rights. You have every bit as much right to rule yourself as I do. And those ideas, I just think those are perfect ideas.”He added, “Are they imperfectly executed? Do we have a ways to go, even today? You betcha!" The judge then added that "those ideas speak to every human heart. They exclude no one and they inspire me, yes.”Gorsuch's court, which has hit hit record levels of disapproval as it kowtows to President Donald Trump, and openly politicizes the bench, is losing tremendous credibility, according to the New York TImes. But In an interview published Monday with Reason’s Nick Gillespie, Gorsuch argued that as a judge he needed to think about high ideals rather than this being a “popularity contest.”“The judicial branch, it isn't a popularity contest, right?” Gorsuch told Gillespie. He later elaborated that “one of the major grievances that the colonists had was that they didn't have independent judges. They had politicized the judges and they wanted no part of that, right? And you wouldn't hire a judge to write the laws for the country. That's not self-rule. But you would hire a life-tenured judge who didn't care what anybody had thought about his decisions.”Gorsuch also told Gillepsie that he believes the Supreme Court is doing “pretty darn well” in serving as an example for the rest of America to follow.Critics have called Gorsuch's books "an embarrassment."

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President Donald Trump’s first Supreme Court appointment, Justice Neil Gorsuch, has a children’s book out about America’s founding — as well as some opinions on whether the current bench lives up to the founders' ideals.Gorsuch told The New York Times’ David French in an interview that the U.S. Supreme Court has a long way to go in meeting those expectations.French asked Gorsuch for his views on the connection between the founders’ ideals and the statements in Gorsuch's book “Over Ruled.” The same judge who has consistently sided with Trump over vulnerable groups like immigrants, federal employees, racial minorities and women said those who ask those questions are “allowed your theories.”“You’re allowed your theories,” Gorsuch said. “But I would say that one of the most striking and inspirational things about the American experiment, to me, is the emphasis it places on the individual and its intrinsic value. You’re not valuable as a cog and a machine to others’ ends. You have value in your own right. You are my equal. You have inalienable rights. You have every bit as much right to rule yourself as I do. And those ideas, I just think those are perfect ideas.”He added, “Are they imperfectly executed? Do we have a ways to go, even today? You betcha!" The judge then added that "those ideas speak to every human heart. They exclude no one and they inspire me, yes.”Gorsuch's court, which has hit hit record levels of disapproval as it kowtows to President Donald Trump, and openly politicizes the bench, is losing tremendous credibility, according to the New York TImes. But In an interview published Monday with Reason’s Nick Gillespie, Gorsuch argued that as a judge he needed to think about high ideals rather than this being a “popularity contest.”“The judicial branch, it isn't a popularity contest, right?” Gorsuch told Gillespie. He later elaborated that “one of the major grievances that the colonists had was that they didn't have independent judges. They had politicized the judges and they wanted no part of that, right? And you wouldn't hire a judge to write the laws for the country. That's not self-rule. But you would hire a life-tenured judge who didn't care what anybody had thought about his decisions.”Gorsuch also told Gillepsie that he believes the Supreme Court is doing “pretty darn well” in serving as an example for the rest of America to follow.Critics have called Gorsuch's books "an embarrassment."

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