Last week, he also promised to
lead a filibuster against Gorsuch's confirmation, but
Republicans, in response, vowed to change the Senate rules to
allow them to confirm the nominee by a simple majority. The Supreme Court is, as political scientists like to say,
a counter-majoritarian institution: The President and members
of the Congress must answer to voters; the Justices, who
serve for life, answer only to the commands of the
Constitution. But, in doing so, it's their duty to speak for
those who lack political power. The Trump era has already
meant trouble for these people--the poor, the sick, the
dissenters, immigrants--and Gorsuch, for all his intellectual
distinction, has shown scant regard for their concerns. There's little reason to believe that he would as a Justice
either. The L.A.
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