The Supreme Court of the United States is the greatest trolling

I need a quick rundown on Gorsuch. Is he a master ruseman?

>>72585350
He's actually fairly moderate, but the more radical Democrats don't want to confirm him because the Republicans didn't confirm Merrick Garland; some have suggested confirming both once another justice such as RGB retires/dies.

I think everyone was mad with Kelo

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>Common law
>State legislature
>Democracy where the one with the majority of votes loses

What a catastrophe!

>>72586062
Apparently; many state legislatures legislated to overrule it afterwards.

>>72586319
>Using the rigid civil law
ishygddt

>>72586401
I need to know something, I look at the law, or the prop. Can't get more accurate than that.

>>72586815
We likewise have cases and citations thereof.

>>72586908
>cases and citations
Which de facto can result in what's effectively cherrypicking. Case in point: the Magna Carta.
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/04/20/the-rule-of-history
Two countries can use the EXACT SAME DOCUMENT to divine two entirely different legal precedents from it.

You say rigid, I say legal certainity. And in their hearts most Americans somewhat agree, otherwise they too would have an unwritten constitution.

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>>72585455
Gorsuch is beta as fuck and trump thinks he can control him.

i really don't know what the fuck is wrong with trump though to do this.

>>72587566
I read an endorsement once that Gorsuch is okay with ruling against Trump at times much like Kagan ruled against Obamacare in 2010 despite being an Obama appointee.

Americans still don't know how to read their constitution, some says it shouldn't go farther than what lawgivers had in mind during the XVIII century, other says it should stretch to include other rights (like what they did with the privacy and abortion rights in Roe vs. Wade)

>thinking anyone knows about court cases in your ocuntry

nahpham nah

>>72585455
Gorusch is objectively as conservative as Scalia, if not more.

Trump couldn't have picked a more literalist or traditionalist candidate who has great educational/work qualities.

AKA an amazing choice

>>72590793
Brown v. Board of Education is an internationally known case though. All the other cases are obscure bullshit but anyone who considers himself even somewhat knowledgable in legal affairs should at least know Brown v. Board of Education.

>>72590774
Such is the nature of a constitution open to interpretation, but then again 90+% of the cases before the Supreme Court are noncontroversial, as with most courts.

>>72590793
>>72591314
>Dred Scott (1857) - Blacks aren't citizens, overturned by subsequent constitutional amendments
>MacDonald (2010s) - Handgun bans are against 2nd amendment
>Brown (1950s) - Segregation is unconstitutional
>Roe (1973) - Anti-abortion laws are mostly unconstitutional
>Kelo (2000s) - Eminent Domain can be used to benefit private entities
>US v Nixon (1971) - The President is not above the Law, Nixon can't use executive privilege to refuse subpoenas

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>>>/pol/

Go back to the redit refugee camp

Also who the fuck says trolling anymore unless it relates to lolcows?