# Gorsuch confirmation hearing **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [March 20, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653 "2017-03-20T22:05:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 27
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653/521 "2017-04-08T03:19:29Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > All last year they made a mockery of the Constitution … Which part of it was mocked? > [@](#): > > … by refusing to debate any of Obama’s nominees Obama submitted more than one SCOTUS nominee? ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653/522 "2017-04-08T12:51:08Z")
There’s more courts than the Supreme one, yanno. McConnell and his party-first minions (just shut yer pie hole, McCain) were merely [extending their record.](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/16/it-s-not-just-merrick-garland-republicans-are-blocking-so-many-nominees-it-s-caused-a-judicial-emergency.html) ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653/523 "2017-04-08T13:07:32Z")
> [@Xema](#): > > Obama submitted more than one SCOTUS nominee? He did. Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagen, both confirmed. ---
**Author:** ![Richard\_Parker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/35a633/32.png) [@Richard\_Parker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Richard_Parker)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2017, 1:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653/524 "2017-04-08T13:08:54Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > He did. Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagen, both confirmed. Because the GOP could only lose one Senator. If the Dems only had 41, they too would have failed to filibuster. ---
**Author:** ![ElvisL1ves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653/525 "2017-04-09T17:07:38Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > He did. Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagen, both confirmed. I’m sure you know you’re leaving one out. Care to tell us why? ---
**Author:** ![Xema](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9de053/32.png) [@Xema](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xema)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2017, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653/526 "2017-04-09T23:39:54Z")
> [@Bricker](#): > > Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagen, both confirmed. And discussed, yes? ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653/527 "2017-04-10T15:07:01Z")
Rose Garden right now: Neil Gorsuch to take public oath and assume the seat on the Supreme Court. ETA: And inside 90 seconds, Trump makes it about him. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![septimus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/septimus/32/410_2.png) [@septimus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/septimus)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 7:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653/528 "2018-05-25T07:08:37Z")
\*\*\*And Trump’s base rejoices. \*\*\*Gorsuch casts the deciding vote in the landmark [Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis decision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems_Corp._v._Lewis). This good news overturns a key provision of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 — the Democratic “solution” that has kept the American economy underperforming for almost a century. Good riddance! Briefly, when employers cheat employees the employees need to hire expensive lawyers — that’s the American way. But some employees also wanted to cheat: since the employer had cheated _all_ of them, they wanted to cheat by hiring a _single_ expensive lawyer to represent them all. This of course would have been grossly unfair to the employers who just want to create more jobs. So Gorsuch, Thomas et al have ruled in favor of the Job Creators. Cheated employees are not allowed to pursue a class action lawsuit, despite the contrary promise of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. The contracts drafted by Job Creator lawyers must supersede all government regulation. (Of course the employees had already agreed to this in the fine-print of their contracts. Every American blue collar worker understands that you need to hire a lawyer to review all fine-print when you’re hiring on for a job, no? The Marxists wanted unions to help them with such fine print, but Americans preferred the Right to Work. ) The blue collar workers who elected Trump so they could got Gorsuch on the Court are celebrating in the streets! Make America Great Again. Yes, being cheated with no recourse may hurt a little, but how else can we make American labor competitive with its peers in China, Bangladesh and North Korea? But wouldn’t you know? The [Clintonistas are rooting against America](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/24/opinion/supreme-court-workers-payment.html). Tired of too much winning for America, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/budget_player_cadet/32/205_2.png) [@Budget\_Player\_Cadet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Budget_Player_Cadet)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653/529 "2018-05-25T07:22:26Z")
I live in Germany at the moment. I am trying to imagine what could convince me to come live in the US. Even a job that pays _several times_ what my current job pays would be a stretch, because if that job decides to rip me off, my options for dealing with it are _exceedingly_ limited, and that pay raise probably wouldn’t be enough to make up for the eventual cost of medical bills - even just the antidepressants I’m on would break the bank for me in the US; here they cost 5 bucks. The woman I love lives in Boise? Hahahaha as if I’m moving to a fucking _red state_ for anything short of “the entire rest of the world is a nuclear wasteland”. (Also, I can’t rely on my countrymen to not elect complete fucking nutjobs to every single goddamn position in government.) It’s cheaper and easier than ever to search for work elsewhere in the world. I can’t help but wonder what effect this kind of thing might have on the young labor force. ---
**Author:** ![Bone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bone/32/407_2.png) [@Bone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bone)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2018, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653/530 "2018-05-25T13:20:53Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > \*\*\*And Trump’s base rejoices. \*\*\*Gorsuch casts the deciding vote in the landmark [Epic Systems Corp. v. Lewis decision](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Systems_Corp._v._Lewis). The confirmation hearings are over. [This topic is being discussed in this thread.](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=855220) Feel free to cross post relevant items - I’m closing this thread. [/moderating] [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gorsuch-confirmation-hearing/782653.md?page=26)