Neil Gorsuchs very first decision on the Supreme Court was to let a man be killed

[deminks]

https://thinkprogress.org/neil-gorsuchs-very-first-decision-on-the-supreme-court-was-to-let-a-man-be-killed-67aedf3a6d93

Thursday evening, Neil Gorsuch — who occupies a seat on the Supreme Court that Senate Republicans held open for a year until Donald Trump could fill it — cast his first public vote since his ascension to the high Court. Hours later, a man was killed because of Gorsuch’s vote.

The case underlying that vote, McGehee v. Hutchinson, involved eight inmates that Arkansas hopes to execute in eleven days. As Justice Stephen Breyer explains in a dissenting opinion, “the reason the State decided to proceed with these eight executions is that the ‘use by’ date of the State’s execution drug is about to expire.”

In recent years, state death chambers have struggled to obtain the drugs they use to execute inmates because many drug companies refuse to sell drugs for this purpose.

The Court handed down a series of orders denying relief to some or all of these inmates Thursday night, including a 5–4 decision in which Gorsuch cast the tie-breaking vote. Shortly after the Court handed down these orders, Arkansas executed Ledell Lee, its first execution since 2005.

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Nice work if you can get it. /sarcasm off.

[2naSalit]

1. Yep...

He's off to a really good start.

[SticksnStones]

2. So proud.

Living the dream ~



(in case it's not obvious)

[OnlinePoker]

3. I'm sure there will be a lot more people killed with Gorsuch on the bench

Directly and indirectly.

[Tanuki]

4. Don't forget to give some "credit" to Mitch McConnell.

[MineralMan]

5. Welcome to the Post-2016 Election World.

The consequences of that election will haunt us for decades to come. Forethought is a good thing. We should try it, I think.

[democratisphere]

6. Guess we know where this guy's heart is.

[Sienna86]

7. Interesting with his views on euthanasia

I was wondering if being pro-life in those instances would transfer to capital punishment.

[Iggo]

11. They're pro-forced-birth, not pro-life.

They're not even pro-fetus, because if they were, they'd be aaaallllll about free and comprehensive prenatal care for everyone.

But yeah, they're not.

The people who call themselves pro-life are pro-death-penalty, pro-war, anti-welfare, anti-foodstamp, anti-school-lunches...and, well, they are pro- just about everything that kills people and anti- just about everything that keeps people alive.

So yeah, pro-life? No, they're not.

(Okay, I'm done with my rant. Sorry about that. )

[MoonRiver]

12. It's part of his anti-choice agenda.

Pregnant women and dying people don't get to choose. The right wing PTB will choose for them. This also applies to people on death row.

[Iggo]

8. Kill. Kill. Kill.

[dbackjon]

9. But Hillary is evil!

[HopeAgain]

10. Not only kill, but do so in cruel and inhuman way. NT

[alarimer]

13. The guy they killed might have been innocent.

But as Scalia said, even actual innocence isn't ground to overturn.

They are in a rush because the drugs are set to expire, which is a stupid and cruel reason.

[mountain grammy]

14. Would that be "pro life" Gorsuch?

Guess so.

[HoneyBadger]

15. It seems like we should have an even number of justices

Make it 10? Ties are not always a bad thing.

[Wednesdays]

16. Shhh...don't give tRump and the pug majority any ideas

nt

[MFM008]

17. Death

Better than sex for repukes.