Plagiarism accusations unearthed after Gorsuch gave “cagey answers” to “softball” questions at Senator Grassley’s cakewalk Judiciary Committee hearing
Iowans are speaking out, and wondering what else they don’t know about Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch after accusations of past plagiarism were revealed in recent days. This type of background information would normally be unearthed during the Judiciary Committee hearing, but Senator Chuck Grassley has also received criticism for holding hearings that have been described as a cakewalk, with the Senator himself asking softball questions.
“As the Senate steamrolls toward confirming Judge Gorsuch, what else don’t we know?” asked Matt Sinovic, member of the Why Courts Matter Iowa coalition. “Plagiarism charges, cagey answers to questions, and being appointed by a President under investigation for ties to Russia are just too much. It’s time to pause this nomination, until we know more about Judge Gorsuch than Senator Grassley’s softball hearings uncovered.”
“All but one of the current Supreme Court Justices received at least 60 votes,” said Chris Schwartz, Black Hawk County Supervisor and Why Courts Matter Iowa member. “As Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has said, in the Senate it takes 60 votes on controversial matters. Now Senator Grassley and the Republican majority are considering changing the rules of the game because they don’t have the votes for President Trump’s nominee. That’s not how the Senate is supposed to work.”
The United States Senate is expected to vote on the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch by the end of the week, after the Judiciary Committee moved his nomination forward on a party line vote Monday.
The Why Courts Matter Iowa coalition is focused on ensuring that the federal judiciary is representative of America’s diverse population and ending the judicial vacancy crisis so that every American can have his or her day in court. Why Courts Matter Iowa is led by Iowa Citizen Action Network, Americans for Democratic Action Iowa, Progress Iowa, and One Iowa. For more information, visit WhyCourtsMatterIowa.org.
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Background Information:
Gorsuch’s writings borrow from other authors
https://secure.politico.com/st
The Empty Supreme Court Nomination Hearing
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/0
The Fundamental Dishonesty of the Gorsuch Hearings
2 Democratic Senators Say Neil Gorsuch Refused To Meet With Them
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
Gorsuch remains cagey in written answers to Senate
https://secure.politico.com/st
Matt Sinovic
www.WhyCourtsMatterIowa.org
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We know Scalia DID NOT die of natural causes.
Why Courts Matter opposing this nomination is actually opposing law and order in general.
When any group wants to use the courts to change the American way of life and our culture they lose all credibility.
This so called Courts Matter group is a group of activist fools.
Perhaps you should have researched a little more. 3 accusations with one stating no plagiarism and the other two not offering an opinion. Doesn’t sound like they are very concerned. Maybe you shouldn’t worry to much about either.
You are correct.
The Controllers Hate that they lost the election Biggly and they will never move on, so the Right people will get all the jobs done without them. Work hard Neil.
You republicans are such arrogant assholes. When Obama was president the republicans made it public knowledge that they would do what ever they had to do to make obama fail, even if their actions hurt the average American people. The Republican Party looks out for the 1%ers and you people are too stupid to figure that out.
Donald trump is part of the 1%. Did you just call someone else out, and not even realize its the same dog and pony show?
Reid changed the rules and they damn well know it. This is just more B.S. by the whacky left. People are starting to get real tired of the party of no.
Harry Reid did change the rules when it suited the dems, now they are crying foul. This is not the vote they want to filibuster, unfortunately, there will probably be more supreme court openings during Trumps term. If they filibuster this one, and trigger the nuclear option, they will lose every fight of nominees for the rest of Trumps presidency. My prediction is the dems will come around and vote yes with the 60 votes needed with Dems that are not up for election this next election. That is how they play the game. Said this is a game to them but that is how they play, trying to keep their jobs.