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    Trump will nominate his pick for the Supreme Court next week!

    Let us hope Donald Trump's selection is one who will follow the most fundamental rule of constitutional construction which is stated as follows:


    The fundamental principle of constitutional construction is that effect must be given to the intent of the framers of the organic law and of the people adopting it. This is the polestar in the construction of constitutions, all other principles of construction are only rules or guides to aid in the determination of the intention of the constitution’s framers.--- numerous citations omitted__ Vol.16 American Jurisprudence, 2d Constitutional law (1992 edition), pages 418-19 - - - Par. 92. Intent of framers and adopters as controlling.


    For far too long we have had judges and Justices who not only have ignored and subverted the text of our written Constitution, but likewise have ignored the documented "legislative intent" of our Constitution as stated during its framing and ratification which gives context to its text.


    Those who reject and ignore abiding by the intentions and beliefs under which our Constitution was agree to, as those intentions and beliefs may be documented from historical records, wish to remove the anchor and rudder of our constitutional system so they may then be free to “interpret” the Constitution to mean whatever they wish it to mean. THIS KIND OF TYRANNY MUST END!


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    Yes, I hope so!! The leading frontrunner based on the news scuttlebutt today is Neil Gorsuch, who is very "Scalia-like", an originalist, a strict constructionist, and presently on the US 10th Circuit Court of Appeals based in Denver, Colorado. He's onlyy 49. Young.

    Don't know him, but he sounds like what most people will want.

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    Neil Gorsuch
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    Neil Gorsuch
    Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
    Incumbent
    Assumed office
    August 8, 2006
    Appointed by George W. Bush
    Preceded by David M. Ebel
    Personal details
    Born Neil McGill Gorsuch
    August 29, 1967 (age 49)
    Denver, Colorado, U.S.
    Education Columbia University (BA)
    Harvard University (JD)
    University College, Oxford (PhD)

    Neil McGill Gorsuch (born August 29, 1967) is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit.[1]

    Contents

    1 Early life and education
    2 Career
    3 See also
    4 References
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    Early life and education

    Gorsuch was born in Denver, Colorado. He is the son of Anne Gorsuch Burford (née Anne Irene McGill), the first female head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He graduated from the Georgetown Preparatory School and received a B.A. from Columbia University (where he was co-founder and first chief editor of the alternative newspaper The Fed and won a Truman Scholarship). He earned his J.D. from Harvard Law School and Doctorate of Legal Philosophy from Oxford University, where he studied as a Marshall Scholar at University College.

    Career

    Gorsuch clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle on the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1991–1992, and then for United States Supreme Court Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy from 1993–1994.

    From 1995–2005, Judge Gorsuch was in private practice with the Washington, D.C. law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel. He was a Deputy Associate Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2005 until 2006.

    His first book, The Future of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia, was published by Princeton University Press in July 2006. He is also a co-author of The Law of Judicial Precedent, published by Thomson West in 2016.

    Gorsuch was nominated by President George W. Bush on May 10, 2006 to a seat on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit vacated by Judge David M. Ebel (also a former clerk of Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White) who took senior status in 2006. Gorsuch was confirmed just over two months later on July 20, 2006 by voice vote in the U.S. Senate.[2] Gorsuch was President Bush's fifth appointment to the Tenth Circuit.

    Since he took office, Gorsuch has sent some of his law clerks on to become Supreme Court clerks, and he is sometimes regarded as a "feeder judge".[3]

    In September 2016, during the U.S. presidential election, then-candidate Donald Trump included Gorsuch, as well as his circuit colleague Timothy Tymkovich, in a list of 21 current judges whom Trump would consider nominating to the Supreme Court if elected. [4] In January 2017, after Trump was elected, some unnamed Trump advisors listed Gorsuch in a shorter list of eight of those names, whom they said were the leading contenders to be nominated to replace the seat vacated by the late Justice Antonin Scalia.[5]

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    But there are several others under consideration too and who knows, a name could be pulled from the list, Trump meets them, and BOOM, the connection is made and that person becomes the nominee. So we'll see who it is. Very exciting time!!
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    From what I am hearing the choice has been narrowed down to 10th Circuit judge Neil Gorsuch and 3rd Circuit judge Thomas Hardiman.

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    Quote Originally Posted by johnwk View Post
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    From what I am hearing the choice has been narrowed down to 10th Circuit judge Neil Gorsuch and 3rd Circuit judge Thomas Hardiman.

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    "The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges' views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice." -- Justice Hugo L. Black ( U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1886 - 1971) Source: Lecture, Columbia University, 1968

    Isn't Judge Pryor still in the mix?

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