Posted on 01/20/2006 8:17:40 PM PST by nwrep
WASHINGTON (AP) — Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden said Friday he will oppose Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, saying he is not convinced that Alito will bring an impartial viewpoint to the court.
Wyden, a Democrat, met with Alito on Wednesday and talked about executive power, legal precedents and abortion rights.
“I cannot reconcile the seemingly moderate and amiable jurist of the past few weeks” with Alito’s two-decade record as a federal appeals court judge and official in the Reagan and Bush administrations, Wyden said Friday.
“It is my conclusion that Judge Alito’s record portends a view on the power of the president that would undermine our proven and constitutionally-mandated system of checks and balances,” Wyden said.
“His record demonstrates a dangerous and narrow interpretation of the commerce clause (of the Constitution), which could lead to results that would threaten the health and safety of all Americans.”
Wyden also criticized Alito for “standing with large, corporate polluters who fouled our air, poisoned our waters, and then don’t want to pay for it.”
Wyden is the latest among a growing number of Democrats who say they will oppose Alito, a veteran appeals court judge from New Jersey. Wyden voted for Chief Justice John Roberts last fall.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is scheduled to vote Tuesday on Alito’s nomination to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, with the full Senate voting after that. Alito is widely expected to be confirmed by the Republican-controlled chamber.
Sen. Gordon Smith, R-Ore., has said he expects to vote for Alito, calling him “supremely qualified.”
Eerie, haunting, fantastical...
The former mayor of San Francisco, who presided over a city of the most flamboyant perversions and desolate depravities where every opportunity to denigrate the Catholic Church is taken with the utmost zeal. How ironic the senator looks like one depicted by Michaelangelo as damned in the last judgment on a painting in a Catholic Church as she sits in a hearing about a Catholic judicial nominee!
Don't people like senator Fiendstein realize they are on camera? It would make a great political campaign poster or television advertisement...
The mentality which saturates her consciousness is a form of mental and spiritual illness. Michael Savage calls liberalism a mental illness. I agree, and some people are mildly ill, some are criminally insane.
But it's a sickness which can be cured. I used to be a liberal in my youth. Healed and cured!
Her face the the face of the one damned are absolutely the same. You've got to get those imagines to some people who can publicize them.
That would be "images".
"I used to be a liberal in my youth. Healed and cured!"
If you're not a liberal in your 20's - 30's you have no heart. If you're not a conservative after that....you have no brain. ;)
I was worse than a liberal. I thought I was a little revolutionary. I thought Ho Chi Minh was a saintly leader. I protested the war in Viet Nam. I thought Nixon was the Devil himself. I thought all drugs should be legal and there should be a guaranteed minimum wage. Etc.
I entirely repudiate my former idiocy. It's as though that person and the current "me" are two different people.
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