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<div class="field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields" id="field-wrapper-attribution"><div class="grouping-prefix">Published on </div><div class="field field--name-field-article-date field--type-datestamp field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, March 28, 2017</span></div></div></div><div class="grouping-spacer"> by </div><a href="https://ourfuture.org/20170327/america-cant-afford-another-gorsuch-in-government" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Campaign for America's Future blog</a></div><h1 class="node__title managed-node-title">America Can't Afford Another Gorsuch in Government</h1>
<div class="field-wrapper content-container clearfix inline-fields" id="field-wrapper-authors"><div class="grouping-prefix">by</div><div class="profile-titles clearfix"><a href="http://www.commondreams.org/author/lois-marie-gibbs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Lois Marie Gibbs</a></div></div><div id="shr_canvas2" class="shareaholic-canvas shareaholic-ui shareaholic-resolved-canvas ng-scope" data-app-id="6840209" data-app="share_buttons" data-title="America Can't Afford Another Gorsuch in Government" data-link="http://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/03/28/america-cant-afford-another-gorsuch-government" data-summary=""><div class="ng-scope" ng-show="ready" ng-class="containerClasses" ng-controller="AppCtrl as appCtrl" shr-overflow-limit="3" shr-overflow-child=".shareaholic-share-button, .shareaholic-total-count" shr-overflow-last="false" shr-overflow-enabled="" shr-overflow-wiggle="5" shr-auto-size="" shr-auto-size-trigger="3" shr-auto-size-target=".shareaholic-share-button .share-button-sizing, .shareaholic-total-count" shr-auto-size-mobile="config.isMobile" shr-auto-size-min-size="44">
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</div><div class="discourse-comments-link"><a href="http://commons.commondreams.org/t/america-cant-afford-another-gorsuch-in-government/40016" target="_blank"><i class="fa fa-comment"></i> <span class="comment-count">8</span> Comments</a></div><div class="field field--name-field-article-img field--type-image field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><img class="caption-processed" src="http://www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_large_social/public/views-article/field_of_rotting_cars.jpg?itok=4Fz7eoy-" alt="Cash for Clunkers cars rotting in an Indiana baseball field. (Photo: Ashley Adcox/cc/flickr)" height="478" width="955"></div></div></div><div class="field field--name-field-main-caption field--type-text-long field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Cash for Clunkers cars rotting in an Indiana baseball field. (Photo: <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/viggum/4502201288">Ashley Adcox</a>/cc/flickr)</p></div></div></div><div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item even"><p>Anne
Gorsuch, the mother of Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch, was my worst
nightmare. In 1982, when I first confronted her about toxic
contamination in Times Beach, Missouri, she led the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) under Ronald Reagan.</p><p>Anne stepped down a few months later after she refused to hand over
documents that would have revealed the EPA’s mishandling of the $1.6
billion Superfund for toxic cleanups. She said she would rather go to
jail than release these documents. In doing so, she broke the law, and
became the first U.S. agency director in history to be cited for
contempt of Congress.</p></div></div></div></div></body></html>