Well…if you’re gonna be a right wing ideologue OWN it. Thanks for playing!
Mr Gorsuch… do you believe that the Supreme Court has ever made a mistake in any of their rulings ?
Bellinger’s involvement in the fomentation of torture policy remains unclear. He privately protests no involvement, but the emerging facts cast serious doubt on his narrative. For instance, it is now established that Bellinger was directly involved in the decision to subject three detainees to waterboarding, a fact which very clearly has colored his judgment about torture.
Since Bellinger became legal adviser, the State Department has adopted a series of increasingly bizarre positions on torture. Bellinger has aggressively denied the undeniable—as witnessed in an offensive Bellinger undertook with Rice to deny the existence of blacksites in Europe and to recast the extraordinary renditions program. His major contentions in this regard have since been established as false, and his credibility is now negligible. But Bellinger also presented novel interpretations of the Convention Against Torture in Geneva—arguing that it was inapplicable in a wartime setting and raising a host of other highly implausible objections.
And Gorsuch responds: Only the ones that were made by liberal activist justices.
It’s doesn’t really matter how many years administration lawyers were able to delay supreme court review. If the court says something was unlawful, it was unlawful the day it was done.