Posted on 10/31/2005 3:12:28 AM PST by kcvl
Per Fox News...
A CNN reporter just said that in one case, "Alito took an anti-abortion stance."
This epitomizes the liberal mindset on the role of the judiciary. They are completely results-oriented.
In the case in question, Alito ruled that a state law requiring wives to notify their husbands prior to getting an abortion was not unconstitutional.
That ruling says nothing about Alito's views on the issue of abortion. One could be the world's biggest donor to Planned Parenthood and still find as a matter of law that the state statute was not unconstitutional.
But liberals have no real respect for the constitution. If you're "pro-choice," you must vote to strike down the law, and thus if you vote to uphold it you must be opposed to abortion.
Don't you mean GOLITO!!!
No, then I'll have to start apologizing for years and years of Clinton. Let's not go down that road. lol!
Actually they did get Miers right before the announcement. About the same time of day too.
If most people think he's a good pick, I will be happy. I want the arguiing on this forum to end. My big concern is whether we will get enough support for Alito in the Senate. As you know, I felt the Miers pick was a direct result of the weakness of the senators. They will have to stiffen their backbones to get this guy through.
LOL! I'm sure we'll hear some pundit rumbling, but I doubt that they'll trash Alito the way they trashed Miers. For one thing, this pick was run by them in advance, with lots of leaking and speculation; I think one of the things that really frosted them about Miers was that she was picked, as Bush said, "outside of the judicial monastery," and they had no advance preparation. That, to me, is the only thing that can explain the highly personal tone of their outrage, which went way beyond an examination of qualifications and clearly showed that they were personally miffed.
Bush has a habit of doing what he wants to do and playing his hand close to the vest. This can be good, but at the same time, it is also good for him to cultivate his potential critics and at least defang them a bit with some advance warning. But again, the way the WH handles its press and public relations is sadly wanting, particularly since the departure of Ari Fleischer.
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I was about to switch the channel when I heard him start on that...I'm mesmerized by Alter's ability to distort.
A fair number of Miers supporters (i don't keep notes as to which) asserted either that if Miers is dropped, President Bush would nominate somebody worse, e.g., Gonzales; or that they HOPED President Bush would nominate Gonzales in order to spite the people who voiced objection to the Miers nomination.
The good news is that nearly all of those people will unite behind the nomination of Alito.
There is tension in the DEM camp, and in the bowels of the gang of 14. Buy stock in Maalox!
Absolutely right, GLGB. Abortion is their big issue - how sad.
Alter has a very sick view of the world. Imus is leading him down the primrose path to implicate Cheney and the Prez. He is happy to comply with Cheney, but got a little shakey when it came to Bush.
There is something that bugs me about this choice. It's almost as if saying that Bush can't get a woman past conservatives, a subtle smack at us, who have mostly been pulling for Janice Rogers Brown. I'm not surprised, really. FRegards....
While I'll always be leery of anonymous sources, this makes sense as to why he chose Miers. We'll never know how she would have turned out as a justice. It's a shame we've now ruled out anyone without a judicial background.
Great point. Corzine is going to have a fit not being able to oppose Alito. Unintended consequences.
Not after what he's been through with Miers. That horse is dead. Let's not beat it.
Some people's idea about "conservative" is a bunch of church ladies who are shocked by vulgar language. So, the "conservative outcome", using this logic, would be banning the vulgar language all the time.
I have heard people talking about this for years, the number of Catholics in high courts. As long as they apply the law as they should they can be a prairie dog, I wouldn't care.
Didn't see it but heard that he had referred to Roe as 'super-precedent.' No such statement in Alito's record!
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