Is there some custom of Senatorial courtesy that prevents people from calling a spade a spade?
Alito was nominated by a president who wants to overturn Roe v. Wade* to appease right-wing activists who want to overturn Roe v. Wade. He has risen through the ranks of a movement in jurisprudence that holds overturning Roe v. Wade as one of its key values. He made no secret of his desire to overturn Roe v. Wade when he worked for the Reagan Administration. As a judge in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, he obviously didn't have the authority to overturn Roe v. Wade, but he interpreted that precedent in a way that took the most restrictive possible view of a woman's right to an abortion.
And now we're supposed to believe that if he gets a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land, there's some kind of doubt as to what he will do with Roe v. Wade? If you put a Port-a-Potty in the woods, will the bears start shitting in it? Sheesh!
*Not to mention all the other long-established precedents that the right fringe looks down on. Remember, this guy was brown-nosing for a promotion in the office of Attorney General Edwin "if a person is innocent of a crime, then by definition he is not a suspect" Meese.
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Date: 2005-11-16 01:45 pm (UTC)Alito was nominated by a president who wants to overturn Roe v. Wade* to appease right-wing activists who want to overturn Roe v. Wade. He has risen through the ranks of a movement in jurisprudence that holds overturning Roe v. Wade as one of its key values. He made no secret of his desire to overturn Roe v. Wade when he worked for the Reagan Administration. As a judge in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, he obviously didn't have the authority to overturn Roe v. Wade, but he interpreted that precedent in a way that took the most restrictive possible view of a woman's right to an abortion.
And now we're supposed to believe that if he gets a lifetime appointment to the highest court in the land, there's some kind of doubt as to what he will do with Roe v. Wade? If you put a Port-a-Potty in the woods, will the bears start shitting in it? Sheesh!
*Not to mention all the other long-established precedents that the right fringe looks down on. Remember, this guy was brown-nosing for a promotion in the office of Attorney General Edwin "if a person is innocent of a crime, then by definition he is not a suspect" Meese.