Neil Gorsuch
Neil McGill Gorsuch is a federal appellate judge nominated by United States President Donald Trump to the U.S. Supreme Court, to fill the vacancy created by the passing of Antonin Scalia.
Gorsuch is pro-choice and told Senator Susan Collins that he would not overturn Roe v. Wade even if there were a 5-4 majority to do so, as reported by Politico:[1]
- When [Gorsuch] met with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) earlier [in February], she pressed him on his views on judicial precedent: If five current justices disagree with a previous Supreme Court decision, is that sufficient grounds to overturn the ruling? Gorsuch said no.
- “It’s important to me generally, but it also is important to me because of Roe v. Wade,” Collins, who supports abortion rights, said of asking Gorsuch about precedent. “It’s an important principle.”
David Souter and Anthony Kennedy used the same excuse to perpetuate Roe v. Wade in 1992 in Planned Parenthood v. Casey.
Gorsuch is active in an ultra-liberal Episcopalian church whose woman pastor marched against Trump in Washington, D.C. in January. More generally, the Episcopalian church is officially on record as being strongly against pro-life laws.
After Scalia unexpected passed away, Gorsuch began positioning himself for the vacancy by aligning himself with originalism. He supposedly opposes judicial activism as an underhanded method to bring about social change,[2] but sided with inventing new rights for transgenders under a federal law passed years ago.
