@GatekeepKen Gorsuch's mother was the first federal agency chief cited for contempt of Congress – and hoo boy, *such* contempt! EPA put roadblocks in the way of a Superfund cleanup in order to affect a political campaign; Ms. Gorsuch refused to produce relevant records to Congress; the stalemate was broken when it came out that "Reagan Administration officials... heard Gorsuch say... that she was holding back more than $6 million in Federal funds to clean up the Stringfellow Acid Pits toxic waste site near Los Angeles to avoid helping the Senate campaign of former Gov. Jerry Brown of California, a Democrat.

"The White House then abandoned its court claim that the documents related to this incident could not be subpoenaed by Congress because they were covered by executive privilege and the EPA turned the documents over to Congress. Gorsuch immediately resigned her post...."

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"But @msbellows!" you exclaim fairmindedly. "Just because Neil Gorsuch's mother was a corrupt administrator who hated federal regulation and abused executive privilege to sandbag Congress and illegally withheld federal aid from citizens to hurt Democrats, doesn't mean her son's decisions to gut agencies and neuter Congress and create an imperial presidency are corrupt as well!"

Um... yeah, it does. In this case, it really, really does.

@GatekeepKen And I'm just gonna reup this part again to emphasize it: "Gorsuch sa[id]... that she was holding back more than $6 million in Federal funds to clean up the Stringfellow Acid Pits toxic waste site near Los Angeles to avoid helping the Senate campaign of former Gov. Jerry Brown... a Democrat.

"The White House then abandoned its court claim that the documents related to this incident could not be subpoenaed by Congress because they were covered by executive privilege...." #FuckReagan