'Growing Sense of Inevitability' About Alito Confirmation (MSM Deeply Saddened!)

CNS news/GOPUSA ^ | January 11, 2006 | Susan Jones

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Darth Bader Ginsburg.

[Paloma_55]

Virtually all justices give strong authority to precedent and only overturn the worst cases they feel have been wrongly decided in the past.

If you dont think that a "right to privacy" (whether that has anything to do with abortion or not) is not implicit in the Bill of Rights, then you apparently need specific written directions to get out of bed and find your way to work everyday.

Do you really have to get so ad-hominem to respond to a point?

My point is that Alito is clearly moving left from his record to win the approval of the Senate. Hopefully, this is a case of "getting the job" and when he gets it, he will return to conservative principles.

Yes, we have a right to privacy as defined by the 4th amendment. But that right does not extend to the point that we can kill a child in the privacy of our home (or clinic) and claim protection under the constitution.

The current problem we face is that where the constitution is not clear (or it simply implies) the trend has been to leave the interpretation to the courts rather than to let the court say "Hey, the constitution is not clear... how about amending it?"

I hope Alito helps move us to the latter case, where the Congress makes laws and the courts interpret their application to the constitution, and does not create laws from scratch. Example: The right to commit sodomy recently enacted by the SC, and thus the restriction from states to create anti-sodomy laws.

[Dave S]

It is not implicit, it is explicit.

Cant you also say an individual right to privacy is implicit in the 9th and 10th amendments?

[Dave S]

Yes, we have a right to privacy as defined by the 4th amendment. But that right does not extend to the point that we can kill a child in the privacy of our home (or clinic) and claim protection under the constitution.

I listened to more than half of the hearings yesterday and I didn't hear Alito say any such thing. By the way, Roberts also agreed that there is a right to privacy.

[eyespysomething]

My 9 y.o. would be a powerful match for the idiot senators asking the questions.

[Wolfstar]

I hope he's unstoppable. I like Judge Alito and think he will be a fine SC justice.

[Sir Gawain]

I just love the fact that all the pro-Miers arguments are archived here on FR for comedic value, and there are no edit buttons on the forum.

[SirLinksalot]

MY FEARLESS PREDICTION --- BEFORE THE BUSH TERM IS OVER, ANOTHER JUSTICE WILL RESIGN. IT WILL BE EITHER GINSBURG OR STEVENS.

ANOTHER CHANCE FOR ANOTHER CONSERVATIVE TO TAKE OVER THE SCOTUS.

[Huck]

But you can safely bet that Alito is saying what he needs to say.

I think he is going to be careful to not fall into any traps. And yesterday, I automatically assumed what you are assuming--that he's lying to the judiciary committee. But I watched his testimony to Specter again and I changed my mind. Maybe that just means he's a good liar. Either way, there is no evidence to show that he's lying. Just a presumption.

[Huck]

Yeah, well, that kool aid is like good Tennessee moonshine. But some of the kool aiders now say it was all part of that poker playin' strategery. It's sort of like the bible thumper who's confronted with dinosaur bones. They just say the devil put em there and move on.

[Huck]

I'm curious. Setting aside my strident remark re: Bush, are you saying you agree with me that Roe is probably settled law at this point?

[Wolfstar]

I think a lot of people look for explanations that don't involve acknowledging that the president screws up sometimes.

I think far too many people across the entire political spectrum don't acknowledge that presidents are human beings, just like the rest of us. As such, they are subject to the same strengths and weaknesses as the rest of us. So now you and others on this thread look back and criticism him, again, for Miers, rather than applaud his choice of Judge Alito.

Blah! Makes me sick.

BTW, I still don't think Judge Alito's confirmation is in the bag, yet. And as for all those "best" conservative advocates, I haven't heard word one lately on his behalf from the Coulters, Kristols, Frums, etc., of the world. Rush, Hannity and others on talk radio are doing a good job, though. And people here are mostly sitting around on live threads with their thumbs up their butts waiting for someone else to do their fighting for them.

[prairiebreeze]

Engaging in pure speculation....not necessarily.

[prairiebreeze]

Nope, best not to count chickens before they're hatched. But I love seeing the MSM whine and squirm.

[Wolfstar]

Nope, best not to count chickens before they're hatched. But I love seeing the MSM whine and squirm.

I totally agree on both points, prairie.

[colorado tanker]

the American people "deserve a fuller, more forthright discussion of Judge Alito's record and views"

Judge Bork gave you precisely that, numbnuts, and look what you did to him.

[TaxRelief]

'Between the speech-making, his artful dodging, and the questions that not even Clarence Thomas could have messed up, I don't know how we're going to learn what he really thinks,' the Planned Parenthood blogger wrote.

This remark is typical of the racist comments we can expect from "genocide central"-- aka Planned Parenthood.

[Huck]

I was reading more on the subject. Supposedly, Roberts said in his hearings that he considers Roe settled law. Do you remember that? And apparantly they tried to get Alito to say the same thing yesterday but he wouldn't.

[don asmussen]

Huck wrote:

I happen to think it's very likely he's being honest. I could be wrong, but I am more convinced than ever that Roe is settled law as far as the court is concerned, and I don't expect Roberts or Alito to change that. Could be wrong, but that's my take. I don't think Alito is lying about where he stands today.

Possibly the only place Alito is 'shading', imo, -- would be on his commitment to 'congressional findings' that would interfere with individual rights.
From what I've seen his commitment to Constitutional principle far outweighs any respect for legislative 'findings' or executive 'acts'

[prairiebreeze]

Do you remember that?

I don't. But I'm generally unable to watch the hearings consistently during the day, as is also my situation now.