The Friday before Christmas Alito Dump
Looks like the Alito pushers are trying to use the Friday before Christmas to hide all his previous unpopular acts.
WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito defended the right of government officials to order domestic wiretaps for national security when he worked at the Reagan Justice Department, an echo of President Bush's rationale for spying on U.S. residents in the war on terror. ......Also, it appears that Bush's litmus test on his Supreme Court Nominees is whether they recognize his claim to extraordinary executive powers. Remember Roberts, when he must've known he was on the short list, ruled in favor of the government on the detention of Hamdi. And, I take as a given that Harriet Miers also held similar views simply by her longterm service in support of those ends.
Among the documents released Friday was a June 1985 memo in which Alito said abortion rights should be overturned but recommended a roadmap of dismantling them piece by piece instead of a "frontal assault on Roe v. Wade."
posted by mikevotes at
5:16 PM
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Alito's an empty vessel they can throw anything they want in.
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Neil Shakespeare, at 6:03 PM
That Roe v. Wade memo's apparently the same one that's already out there;
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/12/23/115247/70
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the spook, at 10:38 PM
You're right spook, but the previous release was in the Wash Times, so aimed at the base to build early support. This one was aimed at a more central-leftist crowd intended to somewhat immunize the issue on the pre Christmas friday before the hearings pick up in Jan.
That's my guess.
Mike
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mikevotes, at 9:44 AM
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