An enormous percentage of the country. About 90% of the country believes that money has a corrupting influence on politics.

Conservative judges, including Gorsuch, don't believe that.

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Since Donald Trump announced Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court, media seem to have coalesced around a few themes.

One is about whether any Trump appointment should be blocked as payback to Republicans.

That's expressed in the New York Times headline,

Democrats' quandary on Gorsuch appease the base or honor the process.

Spoiler, the paper thinks the real strain is on those in the middle.

Another theme is Gorsuch's eloquence and his being hard to pigeonhole as conservative.

Apparently he didn't skip a beat when a friend came out to him as gay.

There are stories around concerns about Gorsuch's record on the US Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit.

They focus on his justifiably concerning ruling in the Hobby Lobby case,

where the chain store won the right to deny employees contraception coverage,

and in which Gorsuch described birth control falsely as destroying a fertilized human egg.

But the lens-corporate media use for Supreme Court nominees has some blind spots.

In this case, you could read all the elite press have to offer on Gorsuch,

and never hear about human rights for people with disabilities.

You'd have to find ACLU Attorney Claudia Senter's piece on their website to learn about

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