Gorsuch Gets Support from Native American Groups, Liz Warren Hardest Hit
“His opinions recognize tribes as sovereign governments, and address issues of significance to tribes”
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Some Democrats are saying they plan to hold up the appointment of Neil Gorusch to the Supreme Court but a new development is going to make that a little tricky.
Two Native American advocacy groups apparently like Gorsuch and want to see him seated on the bench.
Ryan Lovelace reports at the Washington Examiner:
Support for Gorsuch from Native American groups could put pressure on Western Democrats
Two leading Native American organizations have penned a letter of support for Judge Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination to the leadership of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner, the National Congress of American Indians and the Native American Rights Fund write they “have confidence that Judge Gorsuch will be open-minded to all perspectives,” citing their experiences with the judge and his judicial record.
“As noted repeatedly during the hearing, Judge Gorsuch has significant experience with cases involving the interests of Indian tribes and Indian people,” wrote NCAI president Brian Cladoosby and NARF executive director John Echohawk in the letter. “His opinions recognize tribes as sovereign governments, and address issues of significance to tribes, including state police incursion onto tribal lands, sovereign immunity, religious freedom, accounting for trust funds, exhaustion of tribal remedies, and Indian country criminal jurisdiction. Judge Gorsuch appears to be both attentive to the details and respectful to the fundamental principles of tribal sovereignty and the federal trust responsibility.”
Lovelace points out that this is going to put pressure on Democrats in states like Colorado, Montana, and North Dakota.
You can read the letter below:
NCAI NARF Gorsuch Letter by Ryan Lovelace on Scribd
Let’s check in with America’s highest profile, ahem, alleged Native American:
I've strongly opposed the Gorsuch nomination. Giant companies don't need another Supreme Court justice to tilt the law in their favor.
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) March 21, 2017
But is the Senate really going to pretend there's no cloud over @realDonaldTrump & move on w/ the Gorsuch nomination like things are normal?
— Elizabeth Warren (@SenWarren) March 21, 2017
It doesn’t look like she’s on board yet. In fact, she recently wrote this column for the Boston Globe:
Neil Gorsuch does not belong on the Supreme Court
WHEN JUSTICE Antonin Scalia died last year, giant corporations and their right-wing buddies spent millions of dollars to keep the Supreme Court seat open so that Donald Trump could fill the vacancy. It was only the latest step in their campaign to tilt our courts in favor of big corporations and the wealthy. Now, the nomination of Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court is their reward. Anyone who believes in a neutral Supreme Court guided by equal justice for all should oppose this nomination.
Over the past three decades — as the rich have gotten richer and middle-class families have been left behind — the scales of justice have been weighted further and further in favor of the wealthy and the powerful. That tilt is not an accident. It’s the result of a deliberate strategy by powerful interests to turn our courts over to the highest bidder.
Maybe she’ll change her mind now that her people have voiced approval for Gorsuch.
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Oh this is Rich (just like Lizzie).
So the First Nations want to get big government off their back?
“Any man who believes he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him, better take a closer look at the American Indian.” Henry Ford
Our First Nations groups are going to get a swift lesson in exactly how important they are to the people currently running the Democratic Party. They are going to find out that the biggest sin a Democrat can commit is siding with the Republicans, on any topic.
We have already seen how badly they treat female, black, Jewish and gay people who think the Republicans might have a point.
The Democrats have infected themselves with the notion that public outrage and violence can be directed toward anybody, at any time, at any level. This, for example, is how Chuck Schumer treated somebody who normally allies with Democrats.
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/27/schumer-goes-off-on-trump-supporter-at-nyc-restaurant-witness-says.html
I hope the Democratic voters clean house, the sooner, the better. We all deserve better than this.
How long before “Tame Indian” group comes out to refute these two organizations?
Maybe she’ll change her mind now that her people have voiced approval for Gorsuch.
Or, she may just call them all a bunch of Uncle Toms, for turning against the Democratic
PartyTribe .STFU squaw and chew buffalo hide.
Wait, an Indian used the term “Indian” when discussing Indians?
How can that be tolerated?
What’s next, saying “Black” when talking about someones skin color while pretending not to be?
The horror!
When Elizabeth Warren wants to know the Indians’ opinion, she’ll give it to them.
So, if they are sovereign governments, then how are all of the people on the reservations US Citizens?
Nice to have it both ways, eh?