Despicable family history, no surprise. #Gorsuch #SCOTUS "Ronald Reagan put Anne Gorsuch in charge of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)....Gorsuch nonetheless continued her efforts to gut the EPA. ... Gorsuch finally resigned her office to avoid prosecution .... Amy Coney Barrett whose father was a lawyer for Shell Oil for decades, and John Roberts, Samuel Alito, and Brett Kavanaugh who are all on the Court in part because of support from a network funded by fossil fuel billionaires and their industry "
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/neil-gorsuch-is-preparing-his-revenge/ar-AA1fxP8V
That's a nice conspiracy theory, but if anything the devil is in that "in part because" phrase.
These people are on the Court because they had widespread support throughout legal, academic, and political fields. They were nominated by a president, considered by the Senate, and placed on the Court because the people we chose to elect (and often reelect) decided they were the right people for the job.
To try to frame it as being about something involving a shady network of fossil fuel interests overlooks the history and matters of basic civics.
It does make for clickbait, though.
@volkris
Ok. Let's forget Anne Gorsuch trying to destroy EPA. Gee, wonder why anybody would want to do that? Whoever could possibly benefit? Koch Industries pays for Federalist Society who now chooses justices for republicans. A President? Are you referring to Trump? Lost popular vote, now out on bail for numerous charges. No, they did not have widespread support. McConnell vowed to block Obama choice, yet pushed Barrett through a week before presidential election. Yeah, quite some history and civics you have there.
One problem with your conspiracy theory--besides seeming to grasp left and right for different conspirators to blame--is that it overlooks the actual method by which the US appoints these officials.
The appointment requires not just a president, not just a single senator, but both presidents and elected senators from across the country to all agree on the candidate.
It might make for a sensational story to claim a shadowy outside group chooses justices, but it's simply unrealistic given the checks and balances that function to prevent exactly such a thing from happening.
But then, perhaps you should consider who benefits from telling those tall tales, from misleading the public with those conspiracy theories?
