Internet Nicknamed Trump's Supreme Court Nominee Neil "Taze The Gays" Gorsuch

Last night Trump announced his nomination (on Facebook Live) to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat of the late Justice Antonin Scalia. Scalia was a Ronald Reagan appointee and a champion of judicial conservatism. He was an originalist, yet also widely, widely respected on both sides as a brilliant man. Many of his dissents are both genius and laugh out loud funny. The dude loved throwing shade.

Despite the fact that he and Justice Ruth Ginsburg — a Bill Clinton appointee and progressive thinker — held opposing viewpoints on just about every political and judicial thing imaginable, they were very close friends. “We were best buddies,” Ginsburg said after Scalia’s sudden death in February.

After he passed there was a controversial Supreme Court vacancy issue: have lame duck Obama appoint a Supreme Court nominee, or wait until the election was over and have the new guy/girl do it. Since Republicans held Congressional control, we waited.

Well wait no longer. Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch or, as the internet calls him, Neil “Taze The Gays” Gorsuch. Gorsuch is one of the more conservative of the floated nominee choices, thought of as Scalia replacing Scalia.

The NYT editorial board, for example — who openly despises Trump — pinned a scathing op-ed on the decision:

President Trump had a great opportunity to repair some of that damage by nominating a moderate candidate for the vacancy, which was created when Justice Antonin Scalia died last February. Instead, he chose Neil Gorsuch, a very conservative judge from the federal Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit whose jurisprudence and writing style are often compared to those of Justice Scalia.

Should note, here is a different NYT op-ed in favor of Gorsuch, pinned by solicitor general in the Obama administration and Georgetown law professor Neal K Katyal.

Right about now, the public could use some reassurance that no matter how chaotic our politics become, the members of the Supreme Court will uphold the oath they must take: to “administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor and to the rich.” I am confident Neil Gorsuch will live up to that promise.

I’m not going to get too judicial here, I just thought this a good time and good way to get you to read about Supreme Court Justices by including a funny Wikipedia hack nicknaming someone “Taze The Gays,” which you shouldn’t take too seriously because the internet is dumb and just because Gorsuch is conservative does not mean he’s anti-LGBT.

Gorsuch is considered likely to be confirmed, which would happen around mid-March and sway the Supreme Court from a 4-4 tie to a 5-4 conservative edge.