#gorsuch — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #gorsuch, aggregated by home.social.
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#SCOTUS’ #BirthrightCitizenship opinion is looong.
Mostly the #dissent by Justice #ClarenceThomas & joined by #Gorsuch. The majority opinion is 26 pages long, Thomas’s dissent runs to 91 pages.
Imagine being that freaking #racist.
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#SCOTUS rebuffs #AlanDershowitz $300 million suit against #CNN
The Supreme Court refused Monday to revive the attorney’s #defamation lawsuit against CNN over its coverage of remarks he made while defending #Trump during his 2020 #impeachment.
Justices Neil #Gorsuch & #ClarenceThomas dissented from the majority decision, saying legal standards for public figures who claim defamation should be reconsidered.
#law #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreePress
https://apnews.com/live/trump-administration-iran-updates-06-29-2026#0000019f-13aa-d928-adbf-3faf8d6c0000 -
Justice Brett #Kavanaugh & Chief Justice #JohnRoberts broke from their #conservative colleagues in siding with Pitchford.
Justice Neil M. #Gorsuch wrote a dissenting opinion, joined by Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel A. #Alito Jr. & #AmyConeyBarrett.
“Put simply, Mr. Pitchford’s account of a muzzled defense team is hard to square with the record. But even if it were a plausible account, that still would not be enough,” Gorsuch wrote. -
One of these Supreme Court Justices is not like the other...
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@army_talk_fascism/116510530082800011
Sometimes though, it actually is easy to identify them.
#Trump #Vance #Hegseth #Graham #Rubio #Stefanik #Musk #Thiel #Bannon #Kushner #Hoekstra #Noem #Homan #Bondi #ChiefJusticeJohnRoberts #Alito #Kavanaugh #ClarenceThomas #Gorsuch
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/116489299784659411
Today the Roberts Court spits on graves of hundreds of thousands who died for the idea that black people are people.
The Civil War really was a thing.
But Uncle #ClarenceThomas won't be happy until he can't vote.
#JohnRoberts #RobertsCourt #SCOTUS #crowned #King #OurPutin #VotingRightsAct #VRA #GOP #KKK #DEI #fascist #USA #Constitution #Alito #Kavanaugh #ComeyBarrett #Gorsuch #SupremeCourt #voting #civil #rights -
In addition to #CivilRights, the court powered by #Trump’s picks — Justices Neil M. #Gorsuch, Brett M. #Kavanaugh & #AmyConeyBarrett — has pushed to the right of any modern court on #religious rights & #voting issues.
The court has also entered a new era of extreme #partisanship. None over the past 7 decades has been as starkly polarized.
“There is no center now,” said political science professor Lee Epstein, who performed the analysis with Andrew D. Martin & Michael J. Nelson. -
In its decision, #SCOTUS said the #law, as applied to talk therapy, impermissibly interferes with #FreeSpeech.
“#Colorado may regard its policy as essential to #PublicHealth & safety,” Justice Neil M. #Gorsuch wrote for himself & 7 other justices from across the ideological spectrum. “But the #FirstAmendment stands as a shield against any effort to enforce orthodoxy in thought or speech in this country.”
#MentalHealth #SexualOrientation #gender #identity #LGBTQ #ConversionTherapy
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Justice #ClarenceThomas, writing for the 5 conservative justices, said the federal #law that generally shields the #PostalService from lawsuits over missing, lost & undelivered #mail includes “the intentional nondelivery of mail.”
In dissent, Justice Sonia #Sotomayor wrote that while the protection against lawsuits is broad, it does not extend to situations when the decision not to deliver mail “was driven by #malicious reasons.” Justice Neil #Gorsuch joined his 3 liberal colleagues in dissent.
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This is what I've been saying over and over to my friends who not just support our president, but support him in _everything_: "But if history is any guide, the tables will turn and the day will come when those disappointed by today's result will appreciate the legislative process for the bulwark of liberty it is.”
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“I think it persuaded some, but we have this ruling now that so clearly puts the power back in Congress’s hands, the House’s hands,” Bacon said. “We have to stand up on our own two feet & use these authorities, because that’s what the founders intended.”
He, too, posted a screenshot of Justice #Gorsuch’s conclusion on social media on Friday, calling his homage to the role of the #legislative branch “perfect words.”
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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The few expressions of pushback that have emerged have largely been futile, & instigated by #Republicans who are set to #retire at the end of this congressional session or cut rare maverick streaks, such as Sen #RandPaul & Rep #ThomasMassie, both Kentucky #libertarians who posted Justice #Gorsuch’s words admiringly on social media.
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #Trump #Congress #legislative #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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Most of the major elements of #Trump’s agenda have been accomplished via executive action, with the exception of the #tax & #spending cut #legislation #Republicans pushed through last year using the #partisan reconciliation process—hardly the “broad support to survive the #legislative process” that Justice #Gorsuch wrote was vital to enacting enduring policies.…
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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…It was hard not to detect a note of reproach for the current #dysfunctional state of affairs in #Congress in Justice #Gorsuch’s reflections about the virtues of #legislating, in which, he wrote, “deliberation tempers impulse, & compromise hammers disagreements into workable solutions.”
“For some today, the weight of those virtues is apparent,” he added. “For others, it may not seem so obvious.”
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
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#Gorsuch continued, “But the deliberative nature of the legislative process was the whole point of its design. Through that process, the nation can tap the combined wisdom of the people’s elected representatives, not just that of one faction or man.”
It was a description of governing completely at odds with what is currently underway across the street from #SCOTUS at the Capitol, where #Republicans controlling the #House & the #Senate have ceded their #power to one man — #Trump.…
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Justice Neil M. Gorsuch’s concurring opinion released on Friday after #SCOTUS struck down Trump’s #tariffs concluded with a paean to #Congress that read like a requiem for a bygone era of #legislative #power.
“Yes, legislating can be hard & take time,” wrote Justice #Gorsuch, a #Trump appointee who is part of the court’s #conservative majority. “And yes, it can be tempting to bypass Congress when some pressing problem arises.”
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In Gorsuch’s Homage to #Legislative #Power, a Subtle Reproach of a Neutered #Congress
In his concurrence to the ruling invalidating #Trump’s #tariffs, Justice Neil M. #Gorsuch made a forceful case for the sanctity of the legislative process — & an implicit critique of its current #dysfunction.
#law #SCOTUS #SeparationOfPowers #3CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/us/politics/gorsuch-congress-trump-tariffs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share -
#Trump is clearly fuming at the 2 justices he nominated in his first term who sided against his #tariffs.
“I think it’s an embarrassment to their families, if you want to know the truth. The two of them,” Trump said of #Gorsuch & #AmyConeyBarrett throwing a bit of #StochasticTerrorism into the mix.
He said, “their decision was terrible.”
#law #economy #inflation #affordability #CostOfLiving #geopolitics #SCOTUS
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#Trump thanked Justices #ClarenceThomas, Samuel #Alito & Brett #Kavanaugh by name “for their strength & wisdom & love of our country” for dissenting from the majority.
Of the other conservatives justices who voted to knock down his tariffs — Chief Justice #JohnRoberts & Justices #AmyConeyBarrett & Neil #Gorsuch — Trump said, “they’re just being fools & lapdogs for the RINOs & radical left Democrats.”
Trump said they were “very unpatriotic & disloyal to our Constitution.”
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“At this preliminary stage, the government has failed to identify a source of #authority that would allow the #military to execute the laws in #Illinois,” the court said in its unsigned order.
And of course, Conservative Justices Samuel #Alito, #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch dissented.
#Trump #law #immigration #military #NationalGuard #MilitaryState #MartialLaw #PosseComitatusAct #democracy #Constitution #RightToProtest #authoritarianism #autocracy #despotism #Sturmabteilung #WhiteSupremacy
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Justices #ClarenceThomas & Neil #Gorsuch said they were eager to go further. The 1935 precedent, Justice Thomas wrote, “poses a direct threat to our constitutional structure &, as a result, the liberty of the American people.”
In its recent emergency orders, #SCOTUS has also signaled that it is now poised to give the president more direct #power over the multimember commissions as well.
#law #HumphreysExecutor #ActivistCourt #Trump #Autocracy #ExecutiveBranch #SeparationOfPowers #Congress 🧵
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For the first time in the hearing, Justice #ClarenceThomas speaks. He had no questions for Trump’s Solicitor General John Sauer.
Thomas with the help of #Gorsuch asks whether #Congress can create commissions of multimember agencies with presidential secretaries at their top, with differing firing powers.
Pretty sure Congress just let out a collective groan at that prospect.
This would be asking them to restructure government.
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“I wonder if you ever thought that your legacy as a constitutional advocate would be the man who revived the nondelegation argument?” #Alito asked of #Katyal, who served in the Obama admin.
Katyal was quick to respond. “Heck yes, Justice Alito. I think Justice #Gorsuch nailed it on the head when saying that when you’re dealing with a statute that is this open-ended – unlike anything we’ve ever seen – to give the President this power.”
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#Katyal noted what appeared to be skepticism of the #tariffs from Justices Amy Coney #Barrett & Neil M. #Gorsuch, asserting that upholding Trump’s #tariffs would be “a one-way ratchet” of delegating power from #Congress to the presidency, adding “we will never get this power back if the government wins this case.”
#SCOTUS #law #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy
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Justice #Gorsuch suggests that #Congress may have crossed a constitutional line in delegating too much authority to the president under the administration’s theory.
Gorsuch warns of “a one-way ratchet toward the gradual but continual accretion of power in the executive branch and away from the people’s elected representatives” in Congress.
#SCOTUS #law #tariffs #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy
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#Gorsuch has questions about both “major questions” & “nondelegation”. He is asking Sauer to provide limits on the broadest reading of the administration’s arguments in favor of #tariffs.
Sauer agreed that another, very different president would have the authority to declare climate change an emergency & impose tariffs to deal with it.
#SCOTUS #law #tariffs #PartisanCourt #ActivistCourt #AbuseOfPower #Trump #economy
