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I struggle with taking anything Gorsuch writes seriously. He seems to dream of a world where federal agencies have no power to regulate things but instead all d

I struggle with taking anything Gorsuch writes seriously. He seems to dream of a world where federal agencies have no power to regulate things but instead all disputes are decided by courts (or Congress needs to write laws that cover all cases). Going to court usually favors the party that can afford lawyers and expert witnesses. I agree that it would be good to clean up a lot of laws and rule. But considering that this criticism is coming from a person who claims to be able to divine what people had in their minds 250 years ago when they wrote a constitution makes it pretty dishonest in my view.

lenerdenator 2y ago
That's not a bug, that's a feature. The school of thought that Gorsuch and others subscribe to is one where the US was basically supposed to be an extension of 18th-century England, just without the Crown. This was more-or-less how the antebellum south was set up. You had peasants living in housing provided by the landed gentry in exchange for the outputs of their labor at enterprises that are held by the landed gentry. The landed gentry is the landed gentry because a higher power anointed them to be so, or because social Darwinism simply selected them as such. Those who oppose this are thus opposed to nature and cannot be entertained, much less allowed to wield the power of the state to protect what they see to be their rights. Now replace "peasant" with "working class" and "landed gentry" with "investors". Ta-da. You have the ideal system in these people's minds for the modern world.
JumpCrisscross 2y ago
> struggle with taking anything Gorsuch writes seriously Gorsuch wrote Bostock, the opinion granting LGBT Americans protection from workplace discrimination [1][2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County [2] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf

lenerdenator 2y ago

That's not a bug, that's a feature. The school of thought that Gorsuch and others subscribe to is one where the US was basically supposed to be an extension of 18th-century England, just without the Crown. This was more-or-less how the antebellum south was set up. You had peasants living in housing provided by the landed gentry in exchange for the outputs of their labor at enterprises that are held by the landed gentry. The landed gentry is the landed gentry because a higher power anointed them to be so, or because social Darwinism simply selected them as such. Those who oppose this are thus opposed to nature and cannot be entertained, much less allowed to wield the power of the state to protect what they see to be their rights. Now replace "peasant" with "working class" and "landed gentry" with "investors". Ta-da. You have the ideal system in these people's minds for the modern world.

JumpCrisscross 2y ago

> struggle with taking anything Gorsuch writes seriously Gorsuch wrote Bostock, the opinion granting LGBT Americans protection from workplace discrimination [1][2]. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bostock_v._Clayton_County [2] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/19pdf/17-1618_hfci.pdf