Just damn!
This has widely been debunked as misreporting.
Laura Ingraham had a good bit on it
Alito during confirmation process said in a death penalty case if 4 others desented he'd desent too as a matter of judical courtasy.
I RESPECT a MAN of his word.
No one should start freaking out. If you were an incoming Justice and faced with a Death Penalty case on your first day wouldn't you tend to be cautious intill you are better settled and have chance to review everthing in the case.
Ping
Bump. The problems I have with Alito are the same problems I have with Roberts. Both big government conservatives. Thomas is the only originalist on the Court currently
Climb down off the ledge, Lee. Alito said in his hearings that he favored review of death penalty cases, and even said that he would provide the fifth vote as a matter of judicial courtesy if that situation were to arise. He's doing what he said he'd do.
Debunked already.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito.....I just love to say it.
Taylor's lawyer, John William Simon of St. Louis, has since filed a federal court action arguing that the three drugs the state uses in executions create a risk of gratuitous pain that is not necessary to carry out "the mere extinguishment of life."
Fine hammer him with a couple of grams of heroin and let him enjoy the ride...
Since the Constitution expressly forbids "cruel and unusual punishment," this is a good case for the SCOTUS to consider. It's a pure Constitutional issue.
Since the Constitution does not specify what is and is not "cruel and unusual," the SCOTUS is the body to decide this.
Alito is acting according to his beliefs that the court should not engage in activism. Constitutional issues are the very thing the SCOTUS is for.
Perhaps we gloated prematurely. Feels like we got semi-boiled egg on our faces after all the crowing we did on Tuesday! I hope I'm completely WRONG...:(
FREAK OUT!!!
WORRY WORRY WORRY!!
SOUTER SOUTER SOUTER!?!?!?!
Don't even mind that this is a completely mis-reported piece, let's FREAK OUT AND WORRY THAT YOU GOT SOUTERED!!!!
The author is another Chicken Little idiot who can't decipher a fact to save his life. Just looking for a chance to put on the professional victimology wardrobe and rend his garments while screaming "betrayal." 'Sierra Times' should be a tipoff that what follows is likely tinfoil or hysteria.
And there's a sucker registered every minute, it seems...
The guy had been a USSCJ for less than 24 hours.
Maybe he wanted more time to review a matter of life and death? He deserves the benefit of the doubt, esp since he did what he said he'd do in the hearings.
This is so stupid it is hardly worth commenting on. You people who are throwing a fit about this wouldn't be able to pass a basic civics test if your life depended on it.
The 8th Circuit wants to review this case and Alito voted to allow them to do so. You act as though he made a ruling on the merits - he did not. Get with it, folks.
Seems to me that in a death case it makes sense to go slow and make sure that the fellow is really guilty, and to consider the legal and constitutional arguments that may be presented.
Apparently it seems that way to Justice Alito too.
Good.
Commie Ron Kuby might have had a point when he said, "Maybe he just didn't want to kill a guy on his first day on the job."