suitor. but it is possible that judge gorsuch could check president trump in a serious way, whether it s on the executive order and the travel ban or some other form of executive overreach. judge gorsuch made clear he thinks the job of the judge is to enforce the constitution regardless of the politics. just as the guy who he is being nominated to replace, justice jackson voted to oppose trueman in the steel case. judge gorsuch says i believe in independence and i am willing to check the president. this may get textbooky, but what senator klobuchar was talking about was a kind of selective originalism. this is the kind of thing that bedevil a justice or a nominee who is very proud to call themselves an originalist. it s tough to apply in 2017. absolutely. and the democrats are right to note a series of cases where justice scalia the noted
written by jackson. that s what deexisted. agencies would issue rules and decisions. i don t know what all the consequences would be. and i would pledge to you, i wasn t thinking about being a supreme court justice then. i was identifying an issue for my bosses. if i am so fortunate as to become a justice, i would try and come at it with as open a mind as a man can muster. and i would tell you, remind you who i would bear in mind would be david sentel. when i was with him as a law clerk, issued a panel opinion at the beginning of my year with him going one way. and then by the end of the year wrote for the full court reversing himself. now some people think that s that doesn t show a lack of sufficient steel. i think that shows an open mind and lack of ego, that a judge should bring to bear when he or she puts on the robe. and that s what i would commit