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Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch told a US senator Wednesday that President Donald Trump's tweets about the judiciary are "demoralizing" and "disheartening."
In a meeting with Connecticut Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Gorsuch, who's largely been silent since Trump nominated him last week, took exception to Trump calling a federal judge in Seattle a "so-called judge" after blocking the President's travel ban [....]
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Trump lashes out at Blumenthal for relaying Gorsuch's 'disheartening' comments
@ Politico 1 hr. ago
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 4:22pm
surprise, surprise, surprise-NOT. This is what trolls do, exactly. From a stint as a volunteer online moderator, I learned: the # 1 golden rule: no personal attacks! Without that rule, everything falls to shit, trolling galore. Gorsuch knows how to behave: he attacked the statement, not the speaker.
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 4:27pm
That's the dumbest rule I've ever heard
by Michael Wolraich on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 6:03pm
See, it works! I'm not insulted and I have no desire to argue with you about it!
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 7:10pm
Well, you are an idiot!
signed:
Michael Woldrichy
by CVille Dem on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 7:36pm
sorry, I know not to feed a troll when I see one, worldrichy
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 7:44pm
Surprise, the real story from TPM. If you or I had criticized the judge it would have been the same, sad.
Specifying the president would be an inexcusable counter-revolutionary action. It so less accountable to say "any" instead of "when the President".
by NCD on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 5:48pm
That's interesting and strange because I happened to run across video of Trump discussing it last night on a news channel as I was surfing. (don't know where it was from, who was asking him to comment, sorry! It was clear it was from yesterday) and I thought it very clear that Gorsuch's criticism had affected him. It was like seeing a different Trump, minus the usual bombast and hyperbole. He was talking softly and reasonably, with no anger about the executive order, and he was emphasizing that he thought it was well written and worth defending, that he did it for the good of the country. He talked about getting expert input, stressed reading it over carefully--really stressed that, so he's taking the "doesn't read executive orders" criticism to heart-thought it "beautifully" written. He almost seemed sad. I have no way of knowing whether handlers prepped him for this new character and convinced him to do it. All I know is that I saw a different kind of Trump than any other time since inauguration.
by artappraiser on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 7:20pm
Trump Republican Party alt fact, Trump in the clear with his bootlicker judge, from NYT:
WASHINGTON — White House officials insisted on Thursday that Judge Neil M. Gorsuch, President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee, was not referring to Mr. Trump’s recent denigration of judges when he said privately that he was disheartened by attacks on the courts....
by NCD on Thu, 02/09/2017 - 10:23pm