The topic of discussion for this
Constitution Monday concerns the importance for judges to stay faithful to the
Constitution. One such judge is Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch who spoke
during the 2017 National Lawyers Convention in Washington, D.C. According to
Rachel del Guidice at The Daily Signal, Gorsuch said that judges should be “applying pre-existing law” and made the
following statements.
A person can be both a committed originalist
and textualist and be confirmed to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Even if … you might find yourself the
only person in a class or in your office who holds to textualism, it would
still be OK to say so, because what matters isn’t whether an idea is popular,
what matters is whether it is right.
Originalism has regained its place at
the table with the Constitution interpretation and textualism in the reading of
statutes… and neither one is going anywhere on my watch.
Gorsuch has been making national headlines
since he was nominated for Supreme Court by President Donald Trump and
confirmed by the Senate on April 7, 2017, on a vote of 54-45. Conservatives are
grateful for his nomination and confirmation. We hope that he is followed by
other “originalist and textualist” nominees.
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