{"id":19659,"date":"2017-02-08T22:20:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T22:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19659"},"modified":"2017-02-08T22:20:21","modified_gmt":"2017-02-08T22:20:21","slug":"gorsuch-stands-up-for-his-judicial-peers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19659","title":{"rendered":"Gorsuch stands up for his judicial peers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I am beginning to think more highly of Neil Gorsuch.<\/p>\n

The man whom Donald J. Trump has nominated for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court has put the president on notice, saying that Trump’s tweets about the federal judiciary are “disheartening” and “demoralizing.”<\/p>\n

It’s tempting — for me at least — to wonder if Trump is going to withdraw Gorsuch’s nomination because he had the gall (and the integrity) to speak in favor of his federal judicial peers.<\/p>\n

Of course Gorsuch is correct.<\/a>\u00a0The president’s petulance performance via Twitter has been beyond the pale and below the high standards of respect the presidency should demand.<\/p>\n

Trump clearly demands that others respect the office. I submit that he should respect it, too. Perhaps he should respect it more, given that his behavior — or misbehavior — reflects directly on the office to which he was elected.<\/p>\n

Trump’s tweets have been in response to a federal judge’s decision to strike down the president’s temporary refugee ban. The president has chosen to demonstrate his anger through this social medium — acting like, oh, a teenager who’s just been told his car isn’t as cool as the other guy’s.<\/p>\n

Now a judicial gentleman has taken the president to task.<\/p>\n

Good for you, Judge Gorsuch.<\/p>\n\n

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I am beginning to think more highly of Neil Gorsuch. The man whom Donald J. Trump has nominated for a seat on the U.S. Supreme Court has put the president on notice, saying that Trump’s tweets about the federal judiciary are “disheartening” and “demoralizing.” It’s tempting — for me at least — to wonder if … Continue reading Gorsuch stands up for his judicial peers<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1424,1708,6899,6895,4300,4932,5053],"class_list":["post-19659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-judiciary","tag-neil-gorsuch","tag-refugee-ban","tag-social-media","tag-twitter","tag-us-supreme-court"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19660,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19659\/revisions\/19660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}