{"id":5633,"date":"2017-04-07T11:50:08","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T11:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/gorsuch-confirmed-and-trump-voters-vindicated\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T11:50:08","slug":"gorsuch-confirmed-and-trump-voters-vindicated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/gorsuch-confirmed-and-trump-voters-vindicated\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorsuch Confirmed and Trump Voters Vindicated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>Argumentum SCOTUS vindicatus est!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">William J. Bennett <a href=\"http:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/articles\/2016\/08\/23\/what_a_clinton_supreme_court_would_mean_for_america_131586.html\">had it right<\/a> back in August:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">Too many of our rights, liberties, and securities already hang by a one-vote thread. A Clinton Supreme Court would surely do away with them. It is a better bet that a President Trump together with Vice President Pence and a Republican Congress would ensure that Scalia&#39;s seat or any other open seats would be filled by a conservative. If you are a conservative who cares about the future of this country, there is only one choice. A vote for anyone else, third parties included, only helps Clinton and brings liberals one vote closer to ruining our republic as we know it.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">This sums it up. There was really only one choice for clear-headed conservatives. &#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 11pt;\">I go into considerable detail in<a href=\"http:\/\/rightlyconsidered.org\/2016\/11\/20\/election-reflection-i-william-f-vallicella\/\"> Philosophical Aspects of the Trump-Clinton Contest<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Argumentum SCOTUS vindicatus est! William J. Bennett had it right back in August: Too many of our rights, liberties, and securities already hang by a one-vote thread. A Clinton Supreme Court would surely do away with them. It is a better bet that a President Trump together with Vice President Pence and a Republican Congress &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/04\/07\/gorsuch-confirmed-and-trump-voters-vindicated\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Gorsuch Confirmed and Trump Voters Vindicated&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-u-s-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}