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Sunday, March 26, 2017

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Franken’s Pointed Questions Fall Flat to Gorsuch’s Cool Answers



On Wednesday, Judge Neil Gorsuch survived the second day of his confirmation hearings, where Senate Democrats attempted to compel him to reveal how his court judgments would affect and yet again tried to trip him up.

Just as on Tuesday, though, they failed spectacularly.

“But here you have been in 2004 currently pledging your allegiance to the cause and shopping around a curriculum vitae touting your work on political campaigns dating back to 1976. When questioning Gorsuch these messages confirm that, to get a good deal of your previous profession, you didn’t prevent politics,” Franken said. “Quite the contrary. You were very active.

“So in light of this, I’d like to ask my question again, do you think the United States Senate handled fairly Merrick Garland?” he asked.

“Senator, since I became a judge 10 years ago, I have a rule of ethics that precludes me from getting involved in any way, shape or form in politics. There’s a reason I can’t even and why judges don’t clap at the State of the Union attend a political caucus within my home state to enroll a vote in the equivalent of a primary,” Gorsuch clarified.

Well, considering the fact that the sole reason Franken asked the question was to score a number of cheap political points, I’d say Gorsuch was appropriate to not reply it.

Gorusch answered by stating that he understood “the other side” (Republicans) had their perspectives on Garland, which Franken and his side had their own views and that “by definition is politics.”

That reply didn’t do anything to appease Franken whatsoever, but he realized that challenge had been lost by him and moved on.


You’d think Franken would understand the simple notion that judges are supposed to remain above politics in order to be as fair as possible. Of course, to a Democrat like Franken, the words “unbiased” and “fair” probably don’t mean much.

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