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    1. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      Gorsuch talking about overcriminalization now.

      1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
    2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      We're now talking about the Brown Palace Hotel, a rodeo, and something called "mutton-busting." This is #NSFW. Children, look away.

      7 replies 2 retweets 32 likes
    3. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      Gorsuch: "I could talk mutton busting all day." Grassley: "Senator Franken."

      4 replies 8 retweets 20 likes
    4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      Franken: "Apparently, there are no animal cruelty laws there?" Gorsuch, laughing: "You sound like my daughters on that score."

      1 reply 5 retweets 14 likes
    5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      "You don't know what you would have done?" Franken says, of the trucker case. Gorsuch says he empathizes, but won't answer.

      1 reply 12 retweets 19 likes
    6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      "I'm not a lawyer, but I've been on this committee for eight years, and I've paid attention," Franken says.

      2 replies 12 retweets 52 likes
    7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      Franken then talks about "absurd results" exception to "plain meaning" rule.

      2 replies 5 retweets 16 likes
    8. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      "I had a career in identifying absurdity, and this is absurd," Franken says, adding Gorsuch's decision makes him question his judgment.

      1 reply 16 retweets 44 likes
    9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      Franken now detailing Gorsuch's political past, as a pushback on Gorsuch's claim to Franken re: Garland that "I try to avoid politics."

      4 replies 37 retweets 54 likes
    10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
      Replying to @chrisgeidner

      Franken: "Do you think Merrick Garland was treated fairly by the US Senate?"

      4 replies 35 retweets 85 likes
      Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017

      Gorsuch says that judicial ethics prevent him from talking about politics. Franken says no. Gorsuch says "by definition" it's politics.

      1:19 PM - 21 Mar 2017
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        2. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Ken Mehlman was Gorsuch's law school roommate, and Mehlman put Gorsuch in Ohio in 2004 for the final days.

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

          Franken: "How do you feel about the right to marry being put on the ballot?" Gorsuch dodges, then says he won't comment on personal views.

          4 replies 22 retweets 32 likes
        4. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          "How have your views on marriage equality changed since 2004?" Gorsuch says not going to say.

          3 replies 27 retweets 32 likes
        5. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          He did say — if I caught it right — that marriage equality is "settled law," but noted that related issues remain pending before the courts.

          5 replies 12 retweets 33 likes
        6. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Chris Geidner Retweeted Matt Ford

          Matt also heard it like that:https://twitter.com/fordm/status/844284443753897984 …

          Chris Geidner added,

          Matt FordVerified account @fordm
          Replying to @chrisgeidner
          That's what I heard too.
          2 replies 2 retweets 8 likes
        7. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Franken closes by talking about Bannon, the administrative state, Chevron, and GOP hopes for undermining or reversing Chevron.

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

          Now up: Sen. Sasse, talking about peeing and umpires.

          3 replies 5 retweets 8 likes
        9. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Chris Geidner Retweeted David Mack

          Here's the "settled law" exchange about marriage:https://twitter.com/davidmackau/status/844285451351588865 …

          Chris Geidner added,

          0:43
          David MackVerified account @davidmackau
          Judge Gorsuch refuses to give his personal opinion on marriage equality, but tells @alfranken it is "absolutely settled law" pic.twitter.com/jhIwpXarFd
          2 replies 26 retweets 29 likes
        10. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Chris Geidner Retweeted David Lat

          I'd think this is a possibility; wonder if Alito is watching and looking at the Masterpiece Cakeshop docket:https://twitter.com/DavidLat/status/844287365485150208 …

          Chris Geidner added,

          David LatVerified account @DavidLat
          Sounds to me like someone who wouldn't overturn Obergefell but might rule in favor of religious liberty claims on #SCOTUS. #GorsuchHearing https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/844284382600925184 …
          3 replies 13 retweets 26 likes
        11. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Sasse asking about civics education, talking about the role of all three branches in advancing education about civics.

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

          Highlighting Justice O'Connor's efforts at civic education, Gorsuch talks about the importance of teaching about our country's government.

          2 replies 6 retweets 7 likes
        13. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          On writing decisions, Gorsuch: "People ask who you're writing for. I'm writing for myself, trying to convince myself that I'm right."

          2 replies 10 retweets 16 likes
        14. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Coons, then — Grassley tells us — a 10-minute break.

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        15. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Coons asks about Gorsuch's use of the term "complicity" in his Hobby Lobby decision.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        16. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Gorsuch says it's not new, pointing to pre-Employment Division decisions.

          1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
        17. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Coons: "When do we stop deferring to an employer's religious beliefs?"

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

          Gorsuch on RFRA: "That's the law you [Congress] set forth." ... beliefs / burdens / interest / tailoring ... he says Congrss sets the test.

          2 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
        19. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Coons brings up Gorsuch's views on the "inviolability of human life" in his book. Gorsuch says he mischaracterized the book.

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

          Gorsuch says there is a right to "be left alone" at the end of life. That's Cruzan, here:https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/497/261 …

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

          Gorsuch says that it's a different question to go further in having assistance in dying.

          2 replies 2 retweets 6 likes
        22. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Gorsuch: "Privacy is in a variety of places on the Constitution," noting aspects of 1, 3, 4, and 14 Amendments.

          1 reply 6 retweets 12 likes
        23. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Gorsuch: "Yes, the Constitution definitely contains privacy rights."

          2 replies 9 retweets 18 likes
        24. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          As a commentator, Gorsuch says, not a judge, he says he has concerns about what legalization would mean for vulnerable people.

          1 reply 2 retweets 8 likes
        25. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          He added that he said then that it should be left to states.

          2 replies 0 retweets 5 likes
        26. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Incidentally, Coons refers to prostitution and drug use as "more shocking" than physician-assisted suicide.

          1 reply 2 retweets 10 likes
        27. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Jeff Flake is asking his family's questions. So, that's where we're at. "Telluride" just came up, so, if you had that, drink.

          2 replies 8 retweets 22 likes
        28. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Trout-fishing, rowing, running, and ... I think I'm leaving soon.

          2 replies 5 retweets 22 likes
        29. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Al Franken just laughed out loud at the line of questions, and I have never felt so at one with Al Franken.

          3 replies 41 retweets 156 likes
        30. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Note: This evening session began with Grassley announcing that he's leaving Tillis in charge starting at 8p so he can get home to bed.

          5 replies 7 retweets 20 likes
        31. Chris Geidner‏Verified account @chrisgeidner 21 Mar 2017
          Replying to @chrisgeidner

          Blumenthal is up. He's starting with Trump.

          1 reply 6 retweets 12 likes
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