BLEG: Somebody please post links to Alito's Princeton report on privacy

none ^ | not yet | Dangus

[dangus]

There has been much brouhaha among right-wing legal wonks about a paper "authored" by Alito while he was in Princeton. The highly selective quotes published by the mainstream press pain Alito as a Nat-Hentoff-style libertarian; they are a very strong stand for a very broadly defined right to privacy.

Even from what little has been published, these quotes seem to be arguing a legislative agenda, not assertions as to what right of privacy exists in the US Constitution. Saying that sodomy should be legal is not the same as concurring with the majority in the Lawrence case; even Clarence Thomas called Texas' anti-gay-sex law "silly." (The law has been mischaracterized in public perception as anti-sodomy; part of the Constitutional problem with the law is that it explicitly says that heterosexual sodomy is perverted, but permitted.)

Nonetheless, I believe that the papers may hold potentially valuable insights into Alito's thinking. But the mainstream articles about the papers all use the same quotes, which were selected with an obvious agenda. Can anyone find the originals?

[dangus]

Viking Kittens of the court, I ask for extraordinary leeway from the court. While in its initial state this post is a mere bleg, suitable only for Chat or Vanities, it is the intention of the post to discover truly newsworthy information. Since exiling it to the slower-developping realms of Chat or Vanities would cause significant harm to the purpose of this vanity, I beg the court to permit it to remain where it is posted.

Thank you.

[msnimje]

May I ask, Why does it matter?

19 year olds say and write a lot of things that they wish they had not when they are 40.

[KingKongCobra]

What newsworthy things were you doing 34 years ago?

1971 - I shudder when I remember it.

[dangus]

Waiting to get a life. Literally.

[Deo et Patria]

Good one, same here.