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Gorsuch, who was confirmed last spring and this week began his first full term, has shaken relations at the high court with actions that show -- depending on one's view -- a degree of arrogance or independence.
Whether personal tensions will ease is an open question. But the larger, more consequential, query is whether the new justice, who has staked out the far right of the bench, will push other conservatives to the left.
The hardline, sometimes disdainful, approach of the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia toward Justice Sandra Day O'Connor plainly turned off his fellow Republican appointee. Scalia's tactics appeared to help move O'Connor, who retired in early 2006, toward the court's center, including on abortion rights and campus affirmative action.
Today, the dynamic between Gorsuch and Roberts is especially intriguing. They are similar in many respects, with sterling resumes, parallel professional experience and strong conservative views.
Yet Gorsuch is not a ready ally of the chief. They have seemed in different orbits so far, on substance and style.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/politics/neil-gorsuch-john-roberts-rivalry/index.html
Well, wouldn't it be ironic if putting an extreme right winger like Gorsuch on the court would have the effect of pushing the justices more to the center or even left? There is the Constitution and then there are the personal dynamics among the justices. This is something to watch.
I can't wait to here how they rule on the gerrymandering issue now before the court. Many more Democrats voting and yet R's taking control of state houses etc. due to rigged district lines. This undermines democracy. What happened to one person one vote in this scenario?
Whether personal tensions will ease is an open question. But the larger, more consequential, query is whether the new justice, who has staked out the far right of the bench, will push other conservatives to the left.
The hardline, sometimes disdainful, approach of the late conservative Justice Antonin Scalia toward Justice Sandra Day O'Connor plainly turned off his fellow Republican appointee. Scalia's tactics appeared to help move O'Connor, who retired in early 2006, toward the court's center, including on abortion rights and campus affirmative action.
Today, the dynamic between Gorsuch and Roberts is especially intriguing. They are similar in many respects, with sterling resumes, parallel professional experience and strong conservative views.
Yet Gorsuch is not a ready ally of the chief. They have seemed in different orbits so far, on substance and style.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/politics/neil-gorsuch-john-roberts-rivalry/index.html
Well, wouldn't it be ironic if putting an extreme right winger like Gorsuch on the court would have the effect of pushing the justices more to the center or even left? There is the Constitution and then there are the personal dynamics among the justices. This is something to watch.
I can't wait to here how they rule on the gerrymandering issue now before the court. Many more Democrats voting and yet R's taking control of state houses etc. due to rigged district lines. This undermines democracy. What happened to one person one vote in this scenario?
