Politico: Late breaking Gorsuch plagiarism scandal

[tritsofme]

Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied the structure and language used by several authors and failed to cite source material in his book and an academic article, according to documents provided to POLITICO.

The documents show that several passages from the tenth chapter of his 2006 book, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” read nearly verbatim to a 1984 article in the Indiana Law Journal. In several other instances in that book and an academic article published in 2000, Gorsuch borrowed from the ideas, quotes and structures of scholarly and legal works without citing them.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/gorsuch-writings-supreme-court-236891

Hadn't seen this posted yet...says a lot about Gorsuch, but unfortunately doubt it will move any Republicans.

[burrowowl]

1. K&R!!!!!!

[AgadorSparticus]

2. KNR

[dalton99a]

3. But he's such an honest hardworking intellectual giant

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. Gorsuch was reversed 8-0 by this Supreme Court; not so for Merrick Garland. . . . nt

[R B Garr]

4. Wow!

[zentrum]

5. Wish this had

...come out sooner and Franken had been able to ask him about it!!!

[lastlib]

41. He was just training for stealing Supreme Court seats.........

[Amaryllis]

6. I think Merkley mentioned this in the filibuster.

[TheBlackAdder]

7. He's a model Republican--Steal shit without attribution. Why invent the wheel when you can steal it?

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[rogue emissary]

8. Gorsuch is a mediocre and callous judge.

[progressoid]

9. Yeah, why would the GOP care.

They loved Malania's stolen speech.

[rpannier]

10. They also steal credit for the success of Democratic presidents

[ProudProgressiveNow]

11. K&R nt

[Qutzupalotl]

12. knr

[yortsed snacilbuper]

13. K$R

[jmg257]

14. You're right they won't care.

[Honeycombe8]

22. Nope. They don't want a brilliant mind that applies the law. They want a puppet...

They want a puppet to overturn Roe v Wade, uphold Citizen's United, and do the other things that are asked of him. Maybe strike down a conviction of Trump?

[jmg257]

24. Trump said it a million times- replace Scalia with

Another Scalia..one of the reasons he won.

[joshdawg]

15. Of course the republicans won't care, because

IOKIYAR. Doncha know.

[LenaBaby61]

16. "Of course the republicans won't care."

Nope, not one bit.

[StevieM]

17. Could you imagine if this was Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton? They would be going nuts right now.

eom

[lillypaddle]

18. Well golly gee

shucks.

[BadgerMom]

19. K & R

[Cha]

20. WH..If it's good enough for melania it's good enough for Gorsuch

Gorsuch, “The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia,” p. 192

Kuzma, The Legislative Response to Infant Doe, Indiana Law Journal, p. 378

Link to tweet

[Achilleaze]

21. freaking KGOP does not do ethics or morality

[Gothmog]

23. Hopefully this story will give the GOP some reason to not support the nuclear option

[OliverQ]

26. It won't

They don't care about their picks committing crimes, much less plagiarism.

[mcar]

25. That should be disqualifying

[VOX]

27. 100th Rec and kick...

[Mike Nelson]

28. He probably...

...had his staff "write" the book. He underpays them and collects residual checks. Republicans won't care... they do the same. They probably think Michelle Obama used a time machine to steal Melania Trump's speech.

[L. Coyote]

29. Nuclear Option

[dchill]

30. What's a little plagiarism among shitheads?

[bdamomma]

31. K&R

[keithbvadu2]

33. Well, at least it shows he keeps up with other legal publications.

Well, at least it shows he keeps up with other legal publications.

They make a good resource.

Do I need to add the sarcasm thingie here?

[orleans]

34. so, among other things, he is a thief

republicans give him extra points for this

[lastlib]

42. This is a "Qualification" in GOPee circles........

[FairWinds]

35. This is very serious - particularly in the context of the legal profession.

And plagiarism is not very hard to avoid for writers with any degree of
professional ethics or honesty.

Back in the day I taught lots of college students how to avoid doing it.

For Gorsuch, this should be disqualifying.

[YoungDemCA]

36. Is there a SINGLE honest Republican out there?

I guess that's a rhetorical question, huh?

[stuffmatters]

37. Gorsuch's book is a vehement argument against physician assisted suicide

Just another sadistic, inhumane stance from this judicial extremist/absurdist who believes our bodies belong to his
Plantation State.

[raven mad]

38. May I say........... DUH????????? n/t

[randr]

39. That qualifies him in the eyes of Republicans

[NCjack]

40. Today's Republicans have no ideas. Can't govern, and can't even

plagiarize without being caught.

[mia]

43. Shows his willingness to bend the rules, steal and lie.

He's a spineless excuse for a human being.