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Posted on 06/08/2014 8:02:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
This month, the court will decide three more direct challenges to Obama's policies in which Alito's vote will be key. The justices will rule on whether the president exceeded his authority in making recess appointments and whether his environmental regulators went too far by requiring permits for new power plants to show they are reducing greenhouse gases.
And in the most far-reaching case, the high court will decide whether business owners have a religious-freedom right to refuse to pay for contraceptives for female employees, as required under the president's healthcare law.
With Alito, the court has become a check on the White House, much like then-Sen. Obama called for in 2006 when he joined an unsuccessful filibuster against Alito's confirmation. "We need a court that is independent," Obama said — one that "is going to provide some check on the executive branch."
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I really like Alito and agree with him except for in the vast majority of criminal procedure cases dealing with the very important rights secured by the 4th and 5th Amendments.
Other than that it’s hard to find a gripe with him.
Same goes for Thomas.
But I guess I like Thomas more because he’s willing to say how the court got it right but could do a better job by discarding bad case law.
I like it that Thomas pays no regard to case law that was fundamentally flawed from the outset.
Stare decisis is no reason to shirk ones responsibility to uphold the Constitution.
That said, I get the feeling that Alito likes to play things close to the vest.
Everybody already knows what Thomas thinks.
Both are what we expect Justices to be: Thoughtful, respectful of the law and the Constitution, and bound by a sense of what is right. They are fauna of the court. Compare them with the flora who sway with the breezes having their roots firmly set in a pile of manure that represents the fuzzy social philosophies of their very mediocre mentors.
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I thought that Alito had voted with Scalia most of the time.
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