In his Senate confirmation hearings, Neil Gorsuch gave little away…Practiced, garrulous, tedious, combative, and smugly civil, the judge repeated stock answers that deflected from his constitutional philosophy and his more controversial court decisions, such as those that favored corporations or the religious liberty of non-church entities.”
Despite claims of objectivity, the type of justice that Gorsuch will be is not a complete mystery. His philosophy is apparent in the cases he has decided.
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[S]ocial conservatives have long defined their โpro-lifeโ ethic as a โseamless garment,โ covering a personโs life from birth through death. In this โconsistent lifeโ philosophy, abortion and stem cell research, as well as euthanasia and assisted suicide, are of a whole clothโone is only defensible so much as the others are.Share this article
โOnce we open the door to excusing or justifying the intentional taking of life as โnecessary,โ we introduce the real possibility that the lives of some persons (very possibly the weakest and most vulnerable among us) may be deemed less โvaluable,โ and receive less protection from the law, than others,โ Gorsuch writes in his book, using language long employed in the anti-abortion wars
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