Posted on 10/31/2005 7:58:05 PM PST by Coleus
There were no insults on the thread until you showed up. Good discussion, no brown boots, no smearing.
Take a hike.
Well I wasn't talking about him but you oh smart one.
Thanks Petronski.
You're an immature child, living in your own make believe world.
Sing yourself another lullaby, chump.
I think he will, not because he's pro-life but because he understands the abomination of constitutional jurisprudence the holding of Roe and the reasoning behind Griswold represent. I'll have a better feel for him upon seeing him testify during a hearing. But I don't see anything alarming about him on the issue of Roe so far.
Kennedy must have felt pretty guilty about his own role in abortion in this country to be reduced to salvaging it on the basis of stare decisis, and he actually used the political anarchy and representative cultural angst that has followed Roe as a reason for upholding it. I can't see Alito following Kennedy on this issue at all.
And Miers' male friend, Justice Hecht, said in one of the first articles following her nomination that one can be pro-life as much as the day is long and still uphold Roe. I haven't seen anybody close to Alito make that sort of comment when speaking about him.
All of this is reading tea leaves to an extent. Let's see what Alito says during the hearing.
"I read Scalia opinion eviscerating Alito's opinion.
No need to go further than the SCOTUS "
So I'm taking it you didn't bother reading alito's original opinion?
Because if you bothered to read that, I don't see how you can call his decision political activism.
Both alito and scalia had to resort to interpreting the original intent of congress to clarify whether or not the SSA rules were in line with them. The supremes actually resorted to a much broader interpretation of them, while alito settled on a more narrow one. In essence, the supremes seemed to reason that test if they could work at a job they used to hold, that translated as a general test that there would be another job somewhere in the economy with similar physical requirements - so it didn't matter that the older job was no longer around. Alito took it as saying because a literal following of the 5 step SSA rules could leave an applicant unable to find work, because it didn't take into account the fact that some jobs may be extinct, which would leave the applicant without work and without SS benefits. And that would be against the original intent of the legislation.
And he wasn't being an 'activist' because he cited numerous cases and precedents to back up his interpetation.
So, again, I don't see how you can call his decision / opinion 'activism' unless you didn't bother to read it, and only looked at the opinion of the supreme court or maybe saw somebody else call it 'activism' and you thought it would be a good idea to call it the same thing.
But words for the slaughter of innocence?
Marking.
"Fiscal conservatives who eschew the social politics not so pro life as us."
I really don't consider people who are only fiscally conservative, like Christy Todd Whitman, to be conservative. Never have. Never will.
You just can't help defending partial birth abortion can you, you sick and twisted freak?
So you must oppose Alito's confirmation then. After all, he's such a "sick and twisted freak" that he struck down a Partial Birth Abortion law. We can't be having him on the SC. I'm just an average joe, he actually had a say in it. That must make Bush and the entire GOP caucus in the Senate "sick and twisted freaks" as well. They all support someone who's struck down a partial birth abortion law.
Will you actively campaign to have Bush impeached and against all the GOP senators who will vote to confirm this "sick and twisted freak" that defended partial birth abortion to the SCOTUS?
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