Al Franken Blasts Judge Gorsuch for Following the Law
The big takeaway from the nomination hearings of Judge Neil Gorsuch is that Democrats do not want a jurist on the Supreme Court who follows the rule of law.
They’ve been cherry-picking Judge Neil Gorsuch’s cases to find anything they can to paint him as a corporate shill which is the track the Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer laid out for them.
One case that keeps coming up is the TransAm Trucking case.
Alphonse Maddin of Michigan was a truck driver for TransAm who was fired because he left his vehicle during freezing weather. Maddin’s employer, fired him for insubordination because, instead of waiting for help after his truck broke down, he unhooked the trailer and drove to a gas station.