{"id":331707,"date":"2019-12-17T15:33:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T20:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=331707"},"modified":"2019-12-18T16:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T21:11:12","slug":"justice-gorsuchs-pure-simple-explanation-of-our-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2019\/12\/17\/justice-gorsuchs-pure-simple-explanation-of-our-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Gorsuch\u2019s Pure, Simple Explanation of Our Constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: There\u2019s one other thing, folks, that I saw today that I want to call your attention to. Judge Gorsuch, Neil Gorsuch, has written a book. As a powerful, influential member of the media, I have my copy here. It\u2019s called A Republic, If You Can Keep It<\/a>. He was on Fox & Friends today, and I couldn\u2019t stop watching this. I don\u2019t know how to characterize it. It\u2019s not simplistic. It was just so real. It was devoid of any of the usual partisanship. There were no talking points. It was just pure, is the best way I can describe it.<\/p>\n

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It was just pure to listen to Neil Gorsuch describe life as a judge, life as a Supreme Court justice, his interpretation of the Constitution and how he goes about his job. And I\u2019ve read part of the book, A Republic, If You Can Keep It. And it\u2019s just ideal. And he even cites a stat in the interview. Let me see if the sound bite has the particular stat. I\u2019m trying to speed read it and I don\u2019t see it. It\u2019s about the relative high number of Americans who do not know something, like the name of their congressman or senator — this book is ideal for people. It\u2019s not above anybody.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re looking for a book for anybody to understand the Supreme Court or this country as it was founded, this book is for you. And I want you to hear Judge Gorsuch in his own words, \u2019cause it is rare that Supreme Court justices sit down for extended interviews. They do it for academics. They do it for legal groups and think tanks. But it\u2019s rare to see something like this that happened today.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve got three sound bites. Judge Gorsuch is a special judge. You know, my father, my whole family as you know is lawyers. I\u2019m the only one that\u2019s not. I remember my dad when I was very young talking about the absolute authority of judges in the courtroom. And you don\u2019t argue with \u2019em beyond a certain point. You have to learn to respect their authority, right or wrong. They are the final authority. And he said the faith in the system that everybody has is rooted in the fact that judges are special people.<\/p>\n

And by “special people” he meant that they are and have to be, in an ideal way, exceptionally smart, exceptionally open-minded, exceptionally thorough. And Judge Gorsuch fits every criteria of what my father meant when he talked about judges are special people because they are, in many cases, the final authority on the law, particularly at the Supreme Court level.<\/p>\n

And for those of you who have not had the chance to hear Judge Gorsuch speak or read his book, A Republic, If You Can Keep It<\/a>, I want to play these three sound bites for you just to illustrate how pure this is, how uncomplicated this is, how easy he is to understand as he explains the virtues of his job, of the Constitution, and of the country.<\/p>\n

So he was with Ainsley Earhardt. First bite, the question: \u201cYou always hear conservatives want original constitutionalists on the court. Can you explain what it means to be an originalist or a constitutionalist and how do you describe your judicial philosophy?\u201d<\/p>\n

GORSUCH: The idea of originalism is just simply that judges should follow the original meaning of the words on the page and neither add things that aren\u2019t there nor take away things that are there. And I worry that both of those things happen when we depart from the original meaning of the Constitution. It says we\u2019re not gonna add things, we\u2019re not gonna take things away. The judge\u2019s job is to be faithful to the Constitution at all times. Nothing more, nothing less.<\/p>\n