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Why Don't You Tell Us How You Really Feel About Justice Gorsuch

'Gorsuch is the worst kind of justice.'

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When Trump first nominated Gorsuch, I was relieved he hadn’t picked an outright lunatic, and I felt cautiously optimistic that Gorsuch might be less of a hard-line conservative than liberals believed. I was wrong. Gorsuch is the worst kind of justice. He is a reactionary who dresses up his cruel, antediluvian views in folksy charm; who professes restraint while espousing extreme, sweeping views; who has no sympathy for vulnerable minorities but believes Christians are being oppressed. And he will guide the course of the law for the next 30 years or more. He is a catastrophe for proponents of civil rights and equal justice. And his influence over the court only stands to grow.

This country is in terrible trouble.

— Slate writer Mark Joseph Stern, explaining his change of opinion about the tenure of Justice Neil Gorsuch after only a little more than two months on the Court. 

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