Quotes by Neil Gorsuch - Page 1

Some of the most impressive judicial nominees are grossly mistreated.
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Impressive
Judicial
Mistreated
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In a world without Chevron, very little would change except perhaps the most important things.
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Important
World
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None of you speaks for me. I speak for me. I am a judge. I am independent. I make up my own mind.
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Independent
Judging
Mind
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In the balance of my professional life, I've had the privilege of the working as a practicing lawyer and teacher.
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Teacher
Balance
Lawyer
Privilege
Professional Life
Practicing
Professional
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All human beings are intrinsically valuable, and the intentional taking of human life by private persons is always wrong.
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Human Beings
Persons
Valuable
Beings
Wrong
Human
Intentional
Private
Taking
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Ours is the job of interpreting the Constitution. And that document isn't some inkblot on which litigants may project their hopes and dreams.
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Constitution
Interpreting
Document
Project
Hopes
Ours
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A judge who likes every outcome he reaches is very likely a bad judge... stretching for results he prefers rather than those the law demands.
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Law
Results
Stretching
Very
Judge
Who
Bad
Those
He
Every
Demands
Likely
Outcome
Rather
Than
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Justice Scalia was a lion of the law. Agree or disagree with him, all of his colleagues on the bench shared his wisdom and his humor. And like them, I miss him.
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Colleagues
Disagree
Bench
Lion
Shared
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I'm distressed to hear you think that judges or the Supreme Court is an organ of a party. That, to me, is just - I know you feel that way. And that distresses me.
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Judging
Party
Thinking
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I consider the United States Senate the greatest deliberative body in the world, and I respect the important role the Constitution affords it in the confirmation of our judges.
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Respect
Confirmation
Senate
States
United
United States
Affords
Greatest
Consider
Important Role
Judges
Role
United States Senate
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Though the critics are loud and the temptations to join them may be many, mark me down too as a believer that the traditional account of the judicial role Justice Scalia defended will endure.
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Believer
Critics
Endure
Judicial
Loud
Mark
May
Traditional
Account
Defended
Too
Down
Join
Role
Temptations
Though
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Far from definitively resolving the assisted suicide issue, the court's decisions seem to assure that the debate over assisted suicide and euthanasia is not yet over - and may have only begun.
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Debate
Euthanasia
Assisted
Begun
Resolving
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I respect, too, the fact that in our legal order it is for Congress and not the courts to write new laws. It is the role of judges to apply, not alter, the work of the people's representatives.
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Legal
Representatives
Work Respect People
Alter
Courts
Judges
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Where trial-court and appeals-court nominees were once routinely confirmed on voice vote, they are now routinely subjected to ideological litmus tests, filibusters, and vicious interest-group attacks.
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Ideological
Vicious
Voice
Attacks
Confirmed
Litmus
Subjected
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Judges should be in the business of declaring what the law is using the traditional tools of interpretation, rather than pronouncing the law as they might wish it to be in light of their own political views.
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Business
Declaring
Interpretation
Light
Might
Political
Should
Tools
Traditional
Views
Wish
Judges
Political Views
Rather
Using
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Throughout my decade on the bench, I have watched my colleagues strive day in and day out to do just as Socrates said we should - to hear courteously, answer wisely, consider soberly, and decide impartially.
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Colleagues
Strive
Bench
Watched
Consider
Decade
Throughout
Wisely
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We seek to protect and preserve life for life's own sake in everything from our most fundamental laws of homicide to our road traffic regulations to our largest governmental programs for health and social security.
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Homicide
Sake
Social Security
Traffic
Fundamental
Fundamental Laws
Programs
Largest
Seek
Preserve
Regulations
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I began my legal career working for Byron White, the last Coloradan to serve on the Supreme Court, and the only justice to lead the N.F.L. in rushing. He was one of the smartest and most courageous men I've ever known.
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Legal
Courageous
Rushing
Supreme
Supreme Court
Smartest
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Standing here in a house of history, and acutely aware of my own imperfections, I pledge that if I am confirmed I will do all my powers permit to be a faithful servant of the Constitution and laws of this great country.
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Constitution
Faithful
Great Country
Permit
Pledge
Servant
Confirmed
Imperfections
Powers
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Practicing in the trial work trenches of the law, I saw, too, that when we judges don our robes, it doesn't make us any smarter, but it does serve as a reminder of what's expected of us: Impartiality and independence, collegiality and courage.
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Independence
Expected
Impartiality
Smarter
Trenches
Judges
Practicing
Reminder
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In the legislative arena, especially when the country is closely divided, compromises tend to be the rule the day. But when judges rule this or that policy unconstitutional, there's little room for compromise: One side must win, the other must lose.
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Arena
Compromise
Divided
Unconstitutional
Closely
Judges
Legislative
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Of course, the Supreme Court's work is vital not just to a region of the country, but to the whole, vital to the protection of the people's liberties under law and to the continuity of our Constitution, the greatest charter of human liberty the world has ever known.
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Charter
Continuity
Court
Protection
Supreme
Liberties
Region
Vital
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During the New Deal, liberals recognized that the ballot box and elected branches are generally the appropriate engines of social reform, and liberals used both to spectacular effect - instituting profound social changes that remain deeply ingrained in society today.
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Appropriate
Branches
Engines
New Deal
Profound
Reform
Spectacular
Ballot
Ballot Box
Ingrained
Liberals
Recognized
Social Changes
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For the last decade, I've worked as a federal judge in a court that spans six Western states, serving about 20 percent of the continental United States and about 18 million people. The men and women I've worked with at every level in our circuit are an inspiration to me.
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Continental
Men And Women
Serving
Men Women Me
Circuit
Decade
Women Men Me
Federal Judge
Last Decade
Million People
Spans
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American liberals have become addicted to the courtroom, relying on judges and lawyers rather than elected leaders and the ballot box, as the primary means of effecting their social agenda on everything from gay marriage to assisted suicide to the use of vouchers for private-school education.
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Education
Marriage
Courtroom
Gay Marriage
Social
Suicide
Vouchers
Assisted
Box
Ballot
Ballot Box
Effecting
Elected
Judges
Liberals
Primary
Rather
Relying
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We have all witnessed, as well, family, friends, or medical workers who have chosen to provide years of loving care to persons who may suffer from Alzheimer's or other debilitating illnesses precisely because they are human persons, not because doing so instrumentally advances some other hidden objective.
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Medical
Chosen
Workers
Advances
Debilitating
Hidden
Illnesses
Objective
Precisely
Suffer
Witnessed
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It would be a very good thing for all involved - the country, an independent judiciary, and the Left itself - if liberals take a page from David von Drehle and their own judges of the New Deal era, kick their addiction to constitutional litigation, and return to their New Deal roots of trying to win elections rather than lawsuits.
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Addiction
Independent
Involved
Judiciary
New Deal
Return
Roots
David
Elections
Constitutional
Good Thing
Judges
Liberals
Litigation
Page
Von
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When Justice White retired, he gave me the chance to work for Justice Kennedy, as well. Justice Kennedy was incredibly welcoming and gracious, and like Justice White, he taught me so much. I am forever grateful. And if you've ever met Judge David Sentelle, you'll know just how lucky I was to land a clerkship with him right out of school.
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Forever
Gracious
Lucky
Retired
Taught
Judge
David
Gave
Incredibly
Met
Welcoming
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