SCOTUS Pick Neil Gorsuch Would Be A Disaster For Civil Rights
Here’s how to fight his appointment.
The protests denouncing President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch began immediately last night.
Led largely by reproductive rights groups concerned about the possibility of Roe v. Wade’s abortion decriminalization ruling being overturned, protesters appeared on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court Building less than an hour after the Gorsuch announcement.
The road to overturning Roe requires several steps and cannot be done with this one appointment, but Gorsuch’s track record on reproductive health indeed suggests a frightening potential battle ahead. Moreover, Gorsuch has openly denounced the court’s role in advancing civil rights, and has leaned hard right on cases involving environmental protection, LGBTQ rights, disability rights, and police violence.
The concerns of Gorsuch’s opponents, in other words, are well-founded.
Forty-nine-year-old Gorsuch was appointed to the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver by President George W. Bush. Law professor Melissa Hart, his colleague at the University of Colorado and the director of the Byron White Center for the Study of American Constitutional Law, told SCOTUSblog that if Gorsuch does join the bench, she expects she…
