All those who clamored on FR for an Alito may want to read this real carefully. This is not going to be a consistent conservative vote on the court. You have only yourselves to blame for it, but you'll find a way to blame someone else.
you have to recognize that while serving on a lower court the Judge had to respect the prior opinions of the Supreme Court whether he considered them wrong or not. While on the Surpreme Court he will no longer be bound by that. I still expect him to want to change things back to where they should be.
Now we just continue praying that the liberal justices will be removed from the court.
I didn't want a "consistent conservative" on the court. I wanted a consistent judicial conservative on the Court who would interpret the law as written, not as he thinks it should be. Whether that gives a "liberal" or "conservative" result is not something about which a judge should care. Justice Scalia found flag burning to be protected speech. I didn't agree with the result, and he personally hated that result, but I was satisfied because he didn't let his personal views affect his legal analysis.
This is nothing more or less than propaganda intended to create doubts in conservatives. A clever piece, it doesn't reveal its true essence readily. She may be honest in wanting the Dem icons like Kennedy to stop acting like fools. That is making the entire left movement vulnerable to their own tactic; guilt by association. She knows it is true in substance as well as inference (unlike their attempt to smear Alito) and she knows the game is lost for now.
It's a call to retreat for the purposes of saving resources and the hail Mary hope of confusing the opposition.
I don't want a "consistent conservative vote on the court." I want a consistent Constitutionalist vote on the court.
Conservatism MUST come from the President and Congress.
Define your terms. What I heard was a man who understands the real role of the Judiciary. I'll take my chances with him.
When Roe makes its way back to SCOTUS, the tenth Amendment kicks in.