Gorsuchs Bizarre Unforced Error on Partisan Judges

[madamesilverspurs]

Seth Masket, political science professor at the University of Denver, calls out U.S. Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch for a fairly surprising misstatement during confirmation hearings:

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Masket is correct: the states of Alabama, Illinois, Louisiana, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, Texas, and West Virginia all hold partisan elections to their state supreme courts. In addition, 20 states hold partisan elections for trial court judges. Several other states have a “hybrid” system of partial partisan elections for the judiciary.

So, what’s the deal with this? We don’t think it rises to the level of perjury, being an apparently innocent misstatement. But Gorsuch is being sold as one of the nation’s greatest legal minds, and there’s just no excuse for him not knowing full well that many parts of America indeed have “Republican judges” and “Democratic judges.”
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[gopiscrap]

1. Gorsuch is a fucking dumbass when you get to the level of SCOTUS

you sure as fuck better know what you're talking about

[Angry Dragon]

2. Thomas has no trouble being a dumb ass Supreme Court Justice

[gopiscrap]

4. Thomas should have nevefr been i n a courtroom other than being a litigant or defendent

[Cosmocat]

3. That wasn't a literal statement

Look, I hate that they get to seat a guy who will be a 100 percent corporatist as much as anyone else, but this is republican like forced outrage.

[gopiscrap]

5. actually it's not, I expect my leaders to have a fucking brain

by the time I was 12 I n=knew there were D and R and I judges and that some are appointed and some are elected

[Cosmocat]

6. The irony of your reply is, again, republican like

Again, it was not a literal statement.

He knows darn well that some states elect their judges.

He was talking figuratively.

[gopiscrap]

7. I know damn well it's not literal but it can be taken that way

I choose not to give that shit head the benefit of the doubt, you should stop defending republican assfucks

[Cosmocat]

8. I'm not defending him, I am defending liberalism

from stupidity.

LOOK, I hate that he is a 100 percent corporatist, and there is no way someone that these assholes love so much isn't going to be completely in line with their bullshit agenda.

Just saying, this is a hair brained, forced outrage.