Posted on 12/05/2005 6:12:19 PM PST by njgarbageman
Today, Republican judicial nominees must engage in a distasteful cat-and-mouse charade whereby they are badgered to repent from any past blasphemies in which they contradicted liberal church doctrine on abortion.
Speaking of such blasphemies, two 1985 memos are said to be the twin barrels of the smoking gun that prove Judge Alito to be an irredeemable enemy of women's sacred rights. One involved his application for a position with the attorney general in which he reportedly expressed pride in contributing to legal arguments for the Reagan administration such as "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion."
The second is a memo he wrote as a lawyer in the U.S. Solicitor General's Office in a certain abortion case where he discussed "this opportunity to advance the goals of bringing about the eventual overruling of Roe v. Wade and, in the meantime, of mitigating its effects."
(Excerpt) Read more at davidlimbaugh.com ...
a good article by David Limbaugh. Alito should not be shy about defending his views.
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