5 times Senate Democrats embarrassed themselves during the Gorsuch judicial hearings

4. Didn’t pass up the opportunity to bash the Second Amendment

Democrats never miss an opportunity to push their gun control agenda. A junior senator from Rhode Island, Sheldon Whitehouse, said in his opening statement:

The Court also helps big business against unions:  Harris v. Quinn, 5-4, all Republicans.  Last year, Friedrichs was teed up as a 5-4 body blow against unions, when Justice Scalia died.  With a new 5-4 Court, they’ll be back.

Throw in Hobby Lobby: Corporations have religious rights that supersede health care for their employees, 5-4, all Republicans.

Add Heller and McDonald, reanimating for gun manufacturers a legal theory a former Chief Justice once called a “fraud”, 5-4, all Republicans.

This 5-4 rampage is not driven by principle.  Over and over, judicial principles – even so-called “conservative” ones – are overrun on the Court’s road to the happy result.

Stare decisis: That’s a big laugh.  These were law-changing decisions, many upending a century or more of law and precedent.

Textualism: The Second Amendment uses the military term “arms” and talks about militias, but never mind that when the gun lobby wants something.

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