Thread by @CurtisHouck

Just a master class schooling by Justice Neil Gorsuch when whacked from the left by CBS's Major Garrett.

Gorusch: "I read the other day that...I agreed with Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, and Justice Jackson something like 45 percent of the time. That’s the court I know."

Garrett: "But there are people who watch this right now and say I thought I understood what Roe v. Wade meant in our country. I thought I understand what affirmative action in college admission meant, and this court told me I didn’t understand what that meant and I wrongly relied on things that I thought were settled. What would you say to those?"

Gorsuch: I would say those are deeply complex legal questions on which reasonable minds can, of course, and do disagree. And that when it comes to Roe v. Wade, for example, what did the court decide? Decided that we the people should answer that question, not nine people sitting in Washington, D.C."

CBS's Major Garrett: "How about affirmative action?"

Justice Neil Gorsuch: "Much the same thing. What did we decide? We decided that all people are created equal, that it’s not acceptable in this country to discriminate on the basis of race."

CBS's Major Garrett: "And, for those who would say but I feel something’s been ripped away from me, you would say?"

Justice Neil Gorsuch: "I would say that we’re taking it back to you. In a democracy, you’re in the driver’s seat. You’re the sovereign. Those famous three first words of the Constitution empower you. Do you really want me deciding everything for you?"

Garrett: "And for a woman in a state where she no longer has the rights she once relied on, is that cold comfort?"

Gorsuch: "Major, all I can say is I don’t know better than you do on these questions. And that most major western democracies have decided these questions through the ballot box."

Of course, Garrett and Democratic donor Gayle King got their final pot shots about conservtives and the Supreme Court once the taped interview ended....

Garrett: "Gorsuch does not appear at all troubled by the decline in public confidence in the Supreme Court or the real-world ramifications of overturning decades of legal precedent. Comfort, with such contradictions, of course, is one of the things that comes with a lifetime appointment to the highest judicial perch in the land."

King: "Yeah, many people are questioning whether it should be a lifetime appointment."

Duthiers, playing abortion bro, trashing Gorsuch.....

CBS's Vladimir Duthiers: "I appreciate you pushing back on those issues because I thought it was sort of telling that the associate justice said, do you want me deciding everything for you? If you’re a woman, you will say — but you have decided. Even though you’re suggesting that you’re sending it back to the people, the Court made those decisions that had been precedents for over 50 years, Major."

Garrrett: "And what was once relied upon can no longer be. That’s the change."

Check out my full write-up of the segment (including a full transcript) over at @NewsBusters....

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