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As a young lawyer in the Reagan administration, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion." Now we know why right wing groups on the lunatic fringe are orgasmic over his nomination. His controversial comments came in a job application to then-Attorney General Edwin Meese in 1985, when Alito was seeking to climb the career ladder at the Justice Department.
Alito, an assistant in the Office of the Solicitor General at the time, said he was "particularly proud" of his contributions to cases in which the Reagan administration had argued before the Supreme Court that "racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion." He said it had been a "source of great personal satisfaction" to help advance such legal causes -- positions in which he said "I personally believe very strongly."
There are no more guessing games and semantic tricks. Alito is an ideologuee. He is one of the right's house boys and to ensure a fair court, the Democrats must filibuster. I'm hoping new information comes along that changes my opinion. But as of now, I say that Alito's nomination must be thwarted or aborted.
6 Comments:
I'm so with you there, cuz. Alito is a right wing loser and needs to get his ass thrown out.
Yep - this revelation sealed it for me! I was wavering abit - hope against hope - that he might have had an ounce of his youthful insight still left in him. But this newsflash cleared that right up.
Yep, we're truly fucked if his nomination is confirmed. An entire supreme court stacked with fascist neo-cons that would relegate us right up there to rogue states. We're on our way to imposing our own version of sharia law in the name of christianity. We're in deep deep trouble. The democrats better get their act together, or else.
From what I see I would support him. His high school activities show pro-gay civil rights thinking, how much more can we ask of a nominee from Bush? Not all gays are pro-abortion you know, irrespective of the political landscape. The gay community not supporting Alito in these circumstances seems rolling the dice as much to further wound Bush as to be offended by his abortion stance. I for one will take him and move on.
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11/15/2005 10:55 AM
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posted by Anonymous, at
11/15/2005 11:08 AM
He claims now he 'just wrote that stuff because he was trying to climb the career latter'; in other words lying to get ahead. He should be filibustered anyway just to stick it to bush the fascist right.
posted by Anonymous, at
11/15/2005 3:10 PM
