I've been following the Alito hearings on line a bit. The guy is a sleazeball. He claims he doesn't remember joining a racist organization related to Princeton and at the same time claims that he knows why he joined the organization that he can't remember joining. He put it on his resume in 1985. He says he joined because of some controversy about ROTC, but the dates don't add up. He's lying, no doubt about it, when he could just say, "Yeah, I was a member but I didn't agree with every position" or some such thing. He's lying just for kicks, evidently. He's a liar. He claims that he has espoused beliefs over the years just to get jobs and to suck up to potential employers. Is he sucking up to the Senate now or telling them what his positions really are? Does he have any principles at all?
The guy never met an executive power he didn't like. This is the guy who approved of strip searching and arresting a little girl because she had food or a soda in the Metro or some such minor infraction that wasn't even an arrestable offense. This is a guy that will bend over backwards to come down on the side of the state's screwing you. This is a guy that yearns to see the government in control of women's uteri, or men's uteri for that matter. Any Senator who votes to confirm this guy hates America.
At a time when the executive is out of control, the last thing we need is a Supreme Court Justice like Alito.
UPDATE: I got the strip search case that "Strip Search Sammy" was involved in wrong. The little girl that Sammy said could be searched hadn't even committed a minor infraction. She was just present in a house that was being searched.
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vache said:
This is the guy who approved of strip searching and arresting a little girl because she had food or a soda in the Metro or some such minor infraction that wasn't even an arrestable offense.
Okay, fill me in, how and when did he do this?
John,
I got my wingnut judges mixed up. Roberts approved the arrest and search of the little girl who ate the potato chip in the transit system. Alito approved the strip search of a little girl just because she was at an alleged crime scene.
Vache, I was a bit confused by your wording. You say they "approved" it, which I took to mean as prior to the arrest. I'm guessing what you meant is they validated the police action in court.
I would add that there's a difference between "approving" an action by police and deciding that the injustice of that state action is not of constitutional dimension.
I'm sure Alito would say he did the latter.
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