JUDGE NOT

WORDS MEAN NOTHING Samuel Alito seems to say.  All the opinions that he has in his paper trail regarding the right to choose and quotas are just toilet paper.  Or something. Alito wrote what he wrote.  He should be a man about it. Or something

At issue are two memos that Alito, 55, wrote in 1985. In the first, a bid for a promotion, Alito wrote that he was "particularly proud" of contributing to cases arguing "that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion." He was pleased, he wrote, "to help to advance legal positions in which I personally believe very strongly."

SPIN CONTINUES as Alito’s head turns round and round to see what he needs to do next. Quite a nominee to succeed Harriet Miers as Judge Not.

UPDATE If posssible Sudden Sam looks even worse today.
DEAD WRONG ALITO Alito wrote that he saw no constitutional problem with a police officer shooting and killing an unarmed teenager who was fleeing after a $10 home burglary.
"I think the shooting [in this case] can be justified as reasonable," Alito wrote in a 1984 memo to Justice Department officials.
Because the officer could not know for sure why a suspect was fleeing, the courts should not set a rule forbidding the use of deadly force, he said.
"I do not think the Constitution provides an answer to the officer's dilemma," Alito advised.

ALITO GIVES NEW MEANING to the term run for you life.  T Chris has more on this at Talk Left. The Fourth Amendment requires seizures to be reasonable, and Alito opined that the officer’s decision to seize the unarmed minor by putting a bullet through his head was reasonable. The instant application of the death penalty for a property crime, without the bother of a trial, didn’t appear to concern Alito. 

THE VISCIOUS CIRCLE JERK The Heretik knows we will hear from "law and order" advocates that those not guilty have nothing to fear and why would the innocent flee?  Um, you might flee from people who so casually shoot unarmed people too.  Teenager run from anything and everyone.  What should we do?  Officer Jonathon Swift modestly says shoot them all.

Comments

[blogenfreude]

"Of course, being on the bench changed me ... I don't really hate as many people as I used to! Pregnant, unmarried, and broke? I don't nearly hate you as much as ... oh wait, the pope is saying something ...."

[stacy]

Good one blogenfreude.

"only the guilty flee" is one of Scalia's favorite lines in his criminal case appeals. He makes me sick. Culture of life? Not so much.

I have to say, if the democrats let Alito through with his paper trail, then there is no excuse for their existence. What is the point for their being democrats? When not just be Republicans? A majority of Americans dont want Roe overruled and he wants it overruled. The fact that he wont admit it is beside the point. It makes the whole confirmation process of Advice and Consent a dog and pony show and legitimizes something that is totally illegitimate.

Honestly, sometimes I wonder how a group of people (the dems) who have been around washington playing the game for so long can be so politically stupid. They seem absolutely incapable of summing Alito up in a way mainstream America can understand. You have to make it simple and dems dont like to do that. The republithugs are good at that. How about I give it a go?

"Judge Alito is a conservative judicial activist who will legislate from the bench and undo all the hard-won progress that has been made over the last 60 years and which has made America great. His writings over the last two decades show that he is opposed to a woman's right to choose and he is hostile to civil rights and the most basic work place, environmental and civil rights protections- protections that Americans hold dear. And that he and the administration have not been forthright with the Senate about his views is even more troubling because it appears they are trying to hide something from the American people and the question is why?"

How'd I do?