Posted on 01/26/2006 4:30:38 AM PST by PSUAdam
Judge Samuel Alito Jr., whose entire history suggests that he holds extreme views about the expansive powers of the presidency and the limited role of Congress, will almost certainly be a Supreme Court justice soon. His elevation will come courtesy of a president whose grandiose vision of his own powers threatens to undermine the nation's basic philosophy of government — and a Senate that seems eager to cooperate by rolling over and playing dead. It is hard to imagine a moment when it would be more appropriate for senators to fight for a principle. Even a losing battle would draw the public's attention to the import of this nomination. At the Judiciary Committee hearings, the judge followed the well-worn path to confirmation, which has the nominee offer up only the most boring statements and unarguable truisms: the president is not above the law; diversity in college student bodies is a good thing. But in what he has said in the past, and what he refused to say in the hearings, Judge Alito raised warning flags that, in the current political context, cannot simply be shrugged away with a promise to fight again another day. The Alito nomination has been discussed largely in the context of his opposition to abortion rights, and if the hearings provided any serious insight at all into the nominee's intentions, it was that he has never changed his early convictions on that point. The judge — who long maintained that Roe v. Wade should be overturned — ignored all the efforts by the Judiciary Committee's chairman, Arlen Specter, to get him to provide some cover for pro-choice senators who wanted to support the nomination.
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D*ucheAlert.
The old gray ho of the dims, at it again.
NYT is just pissed because they know that in the near future their managing editor and publisher will be serving jail time for releasing national security secrets. As they are hauled off, I can't wait to see their "crying gag" when then meet their new cellmates.
But views on the 'expansive powers of the Supreme Court' would be okay?
The Times is one big pus sac.
Well now cheese has chlorestol which is bad for you and we should pass a law no one can ever have cheese again. Alcohol from the wine is very bad for you as well and should be outlawed. There now, what was it you were saying.
"...expansive powers of the presidency and the limited role of Congress..." = (In a 2-year-old's voice): Waaaaaah! It's not fair! We want power too, even though we can't win elections! George Bush is a big bully! (Kicking and screaming on the floor)
There are many things that trouble me about SCOTUS. A Justice named Samuel Alito is *not* among them.
that's why they are so p*ss*d because of Alito, their super legislature might not do what they want anymore...
Alito is a shoe in. A filibuster will do nothing but waste time and tax dollars.
Be nice! the old gray lady is going thru a change of life; just ignore the old rag and pretend it doesn't exist anymore
That's what they're best at.
Extreme views. The left throws this term out there in almost every sound bite and op-ed piece, but I have yet to hear them give an example of one. They are relying on the old propaganda maxim of repeat a lie long enough and it becomes truth, expecially to those who are too lazy to question it.
Yeah, it's kinda like especially, only different.
Turpentine or broken-glass?
I was reading through DailyKos last night. The mood is as somber as could be (even for them). Having managed to not bang my head off the wall after reading those outlandish posts, I've come across the following...
- Mary "Cute Little Baby Fat" Landrieu (D-LA) will not support a filibuster. She issued a press release saying so.
- Ken "Raging Moderate" Salazar (D-CO) apparantly won't either.
- We already know that DiFi won't support one.
- Ben Nelson (D-NE) is favoring Alito.
That's 59 votes for cloture. We need one more. I think we'll find it
is this the SAME paper who's being sued for $5 billion by Trump? The same one who's earnings DROPPED last quarter by 60%? This POS is imploding on its own fellow FReepers!
(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")
THAT will never happen . BUT these morons might be walking if their shareholders have ANY SENSE! This POS paper is bleeding ads and revenue like a stuck LIB.
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