President , you and your team have shown me great courtesy in this process. And he entrusted me with the most solemn assignment. I respect, too, in our legal order it is for congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply not alter the work of the peoples representatives. A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge. Stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands. California senator Dianne Feinstein is the top democrat on the Senate Judiciary committee. Shes expected to aggressively crossexamine the nominee during the hearings he especially beca of the fact that the obamas nominee garland never got a hearing. Chuck schumer, a democrat, tweeted gorsuch put corporations over workers. Hes been ideolog ideologue, so that is a hint of the battle to come. Analysts say gorsuch is just to the right of scalia on the conservative spectrum. Gorsuch will go through a tough Senate Judicial hearing, and thats expected to
Gorsuch to fill the ninth and final seat on the Supreme Court. Good evening, thank you for joining us tonight. Im ama daetz. And im dan ashley. This could be one of the longest lasting acts of the presidency. Justices often serve until their deaths. Kristen sze with what to expect. Neil gorsuch is the youngest nominee in a quarter century. If confirmed he could shape our nation for decades to come. Gorsuch has served on the 10th Circuit Court of appeals in denver for more than ten years, attended Harvard Law School with former president barack obama, in fact, before getting his ph. D. At oxford. Hes had prestigious clerkships including for retired Justice Byron white and anthony kennedy. Gorsuch is originally from colorado but spent years in washington. His mother was actually head of the epa for Ronald Reagan before being forced out because of a toxic waste cleanup scandal. Will replace justice Antonin Scalia, a man he looked up to and paid tribute to. As for how he would rule gorsuch
Welcome to the Cato Institute. I am the director for the center for constitutional studies and together with the Federalist Society, we are hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society dean and julie who are with us today for their assistance in organizing the forum and also want to welcome those that are seeing us through cspan and our live stream audience as well. We are here to discuss an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book by the Goldwater Institute tim sandefur, the Permission Society how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways especially since the progressive era the presumption of liberty and freedom is at the heart of the founding principles and documents and has been extinguished in favor of the perception of government with individuals having to obtain permission to government officials before being able to act. Property owners have long experienced this r
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