CNN Analyst: Public Swearing in Ceremony of Gorsuch ‘Controversial’ Within the Court Family

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BISKUPIC: "Well, this is an interesting moment politically because as Jeff probably remembers, back a couple decades ago, there was no ceremony at the White House like this. And it’s actually controversial within the court family. I think this was started during the Ronald Reagan years where one of the oaths was taken at the White House. And several of the justices, including Chief Justice William Rehnquist who proceeded a current chief John Roberts resisted it. They felt like that -- this ceremony signals to the public that there is more of a mixing between the judicial and executive branch. And the whole point of the judicial branch is to be independent of the executive. And when it takes place at the White House, as we’re about to see, that that might send the wrong signal. So, there were -- there -- I recently was going through the Rehnquist files at Stanford and I saw so many different memos among the justices saying, do we really have to go? Look at what it says. It sort of taints the process. But, I think they feel like the door was opened back in the ‘80s and it’s going to stay open."