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    Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017

    Durbin questioning: "What about LGBTQ individuals?" Gorsuch: "What about them? They're people." #SCOTUSnomineepic.twitter.com/zkxfc6ke4m

    9:59 AM - 21 Mar 2017
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      2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Gorsuch refers to marriage equality as "single-sex marriage," in noting the Supreme Court's ruling on the topic.

        8 replies 41 retweets 53 likes
      3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Durbin now brings up the letter sent to the committee alleging Gorsuch comments on maternity leave. G: "I'd be delighted to clear this up."

        1 reply 12 retweets 26 likes
      4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Chris Geidner Retweeted Ari Berman

        FYI: Here's the Gorsuch mentor/professor who has some extreme views on sex orientation:https://twitter.com/AriBerman/status/844232964233990145 …

        Chris Geidner added,

        Ari BermanVerified account @AriBerman
        Durbin asking Gorsuch about his mentor at Oxford, who compared homosexuality to bestiality https://www.theguardian.com/law/2017/feb/03/neil-gorsuch-mentor-john-finnis-compared-gay-sex-to-bestiality …
        5 replies 44 retweets 45 likes
      5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Gorsuch pushed back, got a little gruff, and said to judge him for his opinions/actions — not what this other guy did.

        4 replies 8 retweets 34 likes
      6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        On the maternity leave issue, Gorsuch said there's an example in a textbook he uses about being asked whether you planned to get pregnant.

        3 replies 16 retweets 27 likes
      7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        He says that he is always shocked by the number of women who tell them they've been asked questions like that, says he'd never ask that.

        2 replies 9 retweets 27 likes
      8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        We're back to the trucker in the freezing cold case.

        2 replies 7 retweets 26 likes
      9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        The law as written said he would be protected if he refused to operate," Gorsuch says, countering that the trucker clearly operated.

        5 replies 6 retweets 13 likes
      10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        From this morning: Gorsuch Says He Would Have "No Difficulty" Ruling Against The President - https://www.buzzfeed.com/zoetillman/trumps-supreme-court-nominee-says-he-would-have-no?utm_term=.ojZg6YeP1E … by @zoetillman

        1 reply 6 retweets 22 likes
      11. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Gorsuch now talking about Hobby Lobby by backing into it, starting with Employment Division v. Smith and now talking about RFRA ...

        4 replies 8 retweets 16 likes
      12. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        ... highlighting Schumer's support in House. Talks about high std for protection set by RFRA for all w sincerely held religious beliefs.

        1 reply 6 retweets 16 likes
      13. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Why does he keep calling it Smith v. Maryland?

        2 replies 0 retweets 18 likes
      14. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        On Hobby Lobby, Gorsuch says: "We did our level best, and we were affirmed by the Supreme Court."

        1 reply 4 retweets 12 likes
      15. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        He's reading my tweets, OBVS. Just corrected himself.

        1 reply 5 retweets 118 likes
      16. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        [FYI: Here's the case Gorsuch was mentioning: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1978/78-5374 … / Here's what he meant/corrected it to: https://www.oyez.org/cases/1989/88-1213 …]

        1 reply 7 retweets 18 likes
      17. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Cornyn began asking about signing statements, but really just summarized things.

        1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
      18. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Cornyn: "I wanna talk about the little guy." Gorsuch: "I'm not a blame guy; I'm a 'look inside' guy."

        2 replies 3 retweets 17 likes
      19. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Just run around with that on a breezy day. It's a perfect kite.

        2 replies 3 retweets 66 likes
      20. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Update: There are nine white men asking questions of one white man right now at the hearing. Some committee members are missing, but, yeah.pic.twitter.com/EWUpH16FS5

        7 replies 63 retweets 116 likes
      21. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        "Is this result consistent with the Administrative Procedure Act?" Gorsuch says. Reporters on the edge of their seats. "I follow precedent."

        2 replies 2 retweets 15 likes
      22. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Gorsuch: "I follow precedent." Cornyn: "Even when you disagree with the outcome?" Gorsuch notes he still got the result he wanted.

        2 replies 4 retweets 15 likes
      23. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        On Chevron, Gorsuch says he doesn't know how he'd rule on the Supreme Court. Cornyn attacks the regulatory state, says it's out of control.

        1 reply 6 retweets 10 likes
      24. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Cornyn raises prayer at football games, asks Gorsuch for his views on religion in the public square and "hostility" to religion.

        3 replies 4 retweets 10 likes
      25. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        "It's a very difficult area, doctrinally," Gorsuch says, b/c of the Establishment Clause and Free Exercise Clause.

        1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
      26. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        G: "Judges have to mediate to competing and important values." He says SCOTUS has struggled on the Estab Clause, explains Lemon test.

        1 reply 2 retweets 11 likes
      27. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        "Lemon endures." - Neil Gorsuch

        1 reply 3 retweets 20 likes
      28. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Cornyn: Originalism and textualism! Drink x 2!

        1 reply 2 retweets 22 likes
      29. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Cornyn: If not the text, what is a judge going to be bound by? Gorsuch: "I hope it wasn't what he had for breakfast."

        4 replies 6 retweets 21 likes
      30. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        "A monkey, a paddle, and the Gettysburg Address: My afternoon at the confirmation hearing of Neil Gorsuch for the Supreme Court."

        1 reply 9 retweets 49 likes
      31. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
        Replying to @chrisgeidner

        Next up: Sen. Whitehouse. He starts by asking about fact-finding by trial courts and whether that is a separation of powers issues.

        2 replies 3 retweets 10 likes
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