Constitutional Law
Mar. 2, 2017
Gorsuch filibuster would be a mistake
Trump's Supreme Court nominee has previously argued cogently that presidents and their bureaucrats (immigration officials, no less) should be subject to independent judicial oversight when applying federal statutes. That sounds like something Democrats should agree with, not oppose. By Anthony Francois
Anthony L. Francois
senior attorney
Pacific Legal Foundation
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UC Hastings
Anthony Francois is a senior attorney at the Pacific Legal Foundation
In a recent column, Dean Erwin Chemerinsky of the UC Irvine School of Law argues that Democrats in the United States Senate should attempt to filibuster the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Even if they fail they should try because Gorsuch, he argues, is out of the judicial mainstream as an originalist who would turn back constitutional liberties to 1787.
This is wrong for three reasons. First, Gorsuch wil...
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