Noah: I’m Not Buying Gorsuch’s Claim of Not Involving Himself with Politics

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
NOAH: "Man, look, obviously, this dude is qualified. I mean, I'm not a lawyer, you know. The only law I know is the law of the streets, Yo. Yield before right turn, son. HOV lanes are reserve forward carpooling. (Bleep). Street laws. But when Judge Gorsuch says, "I don't want to get involved in politics," I don't buy it. Because when you read his rulings, a lot of the times, he goes out of his way to slip his politics in. Like, for instance, back in 2013, his court heard a case about paying for birth control, and he wrote a separate opinion just so that he could add that he wanted it to be easier for religious employers not to pay for their workers' birth control. That's a political opinion. Or in 2014, Gorsuch's court knocked down a campaign finance regulation, and Gorsuch wrote a separate opinion, which he didn't have to, suggesting that courts should be much harder on all campaign finance laws. Those aren't just legal rulings. Those are his political views. Which is fine, but then you can't sit in front of Congress and pretend you don't have any political views. And this guy ducked politics hard, no matter how they asked him, he kept bobbing and weaving. It was so frustrating watch together whole time. So when the senators went for break, we sent Roy wood Jr. to the hearing to ask more questions."