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Journal elmegil's Journal: for all y'all who think I'm a lefty 12

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I think Alito should be confirmed. While I have some misgivings, as I did with Roberts, about the tilt of the court from conservative appointees, I think that Alito, like Roberts, is respectful, well considered, and is as impartial as one can expect any human to be.

And on the other side, I'm really really sick of the Democratic Senators harping on such minor and easily explained "problems" with Alito's record. If I hear one more Senator say "Vanguard" or "CAP" or "percentage of results" I'm going to smack 'em.

So there you go. Confirm him, get it over with, and move on to the next battle. If that's all the ammunition you can dig up, you haven't got a case against him other than "we don't like him because he's >gasp< a conservative!" Which is horsehockey.

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  • But what about the woman hating CAP?

    *SMACK*

    Ow, Owie, Ouch. O.K., I'll shut up now.

  • You can still be called a lefty, it would just have to be qualified with the adjective "reasonable" lefty :-)
    • But Ann Coulter claims that such an animal doesn't exist! :-)

      It's good to know that there are more than a few reasonable "righties" as well. Of course I'm talking about you, not Ann.

  • The thing that concerns me most about Alito isn't the nominee himself, it's the balance of the SCOTUS itself. Alito is a pretty reasonable guy, and no matter how many times they try to pin him down on Roe v. Wade, they have to know he isn't going to answer that question.

    What I'm more concerned about is that when O'Conner stepped down, Bush said he would try and find a female judge to take her place. Harriet Myers was most likely just thrown to the wolves so that he could say "look, I tried to find a femal
    • His views on discrimination against women and minorities are extremely conservative and have me a little bit worried.

      Care to elaborate? The only case I've heard that leans this way at all is the whole CAP BS. And I think I've already indicated that I think that's a load of it.

      Anyone that might want to argue that our country keeps all power in the hands of wealthy old white men now has a lot of ammunition.

      As if they didn't already! :-)

      You see, conservatives believe that a woman's place is in the home,

      • Care to elaborate? The only case I've heard that leans this way at all is the whole CAP BS. And I think I've already indicated that I think that's a load of it.

        Sure, the case I'm thinking of is Bray vs. Marriott Hotels. [findlaw.com] Alito dissented in this case. The majority explained that Alito would have protected racist employers by "immuniz[ing] an employer from the reach of Title VII if the employer's belief that it had selected the 'best' candidate was the result of conscious racial bias."

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        • There's not much interpretation involved at all:

          Three quotes, all of them Paul, all of them about specific contexts that aren't always elaborated on, don't summarize the Bible accurately. Not even if you *don't* give Paul the benefit of any doubts and context.

          I would also encourage you to read this page, which outlines some of the objections that progressives have about Alito

          What I've read of the progressive dissents all come back around to one of the four basic points: CAP, Vanguard, litmus test of hi

          • I think it's reasonably accurate to point out that Ginsburg, despite being an ACLU lawyer, didn't get half the guff from the Republicans that Alito has gotten from the Democrats. Why would you think that might be? She was replacing an anti-choice justice....

            I'm not really sure why, but these hearings come during a time of war, huge uncertainty about the power of the executive, and growing concern about the culture of corruption that has become "the K street project"; Jack Abramoff, Tom Delay, etc.

            I found it
          • As another side note:

            Awww.... I was hoping to have a well-reasoned discussion with you about liberalism vs. conservatism and the roots of law. What happened? :-)

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