Scalito "Document isn’t just a smoking gun. It’s a smoking cannon"

New Document: Alito Favored Overturning Roe vs. Wade and State-Level Barriers to Reproductive Rights

Despite Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito’s efforts to downplay his record of hostility to Roe v. Wade and women’s reproductive rights, fresh evidence emerged today showing Alito’s anti-choice activism during the Reagan Administration.

“This new document isn’t just a smoking gun. It’s a smoking cannon. The American people should have no doubt that Samuel Alito is poised to change more than 25 years of reproductive rights for women in America,” said Ralph G. Neas, President, People For the American Way. “As with Robert Bork in 1987, the best evidence against his confirmation is his written record over the past quarter of a century.”

In the memo (available here http://media.pfaw.org/PDF/Thornburgh_v_ACOG.pdf), Alito advises the Administration to:- file a brief in the case, even though the Administration was not a party to the suit, and had no role to play save for ideology.

- use the brief to promote “the goals of bringing about the eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade, and in the meantime, of mitigating its effects.”

- “make clear” to the Supreme Court that we “disagree with Roe v Wade,” and “would welcome” the opportunity to brief the issue of overturning it.
http://www.pfaw.org/pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=20076

and filibuster, and if they decide to do the nuke option, we will need the pro-choice repugs also

I am hoping, but am NOT too optomistic

:shrug:

bunch of hypocritical sob's. :grr:

tip of the iceberg.

In addition to his disrepect for 40 years of law establishing the constitutional basis for a right of reproductive privacy, he completely disrespects 70 years of law establishing a constitutional basis for congress's authority to regulate voting rights, racial and gender equality, environmental protections, labor rights, safety regulations, etc.

Alito's radical judicial opinions against the congressional authority, against women's and minorities' rights, and against policing corporate discrimination are clearly motivated by his personal extremist agenda.

We cannot let the MSM spread the Republican lies about the congressional history of filibustering Supreme Court nominees. In 1965, the Senate easily confirmed Judge Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court. Just three years later, when President Lyndon Johnson nominated Fortas to serve as Chief Justice, there was obviously no question about his qualifications because Fortas was already serving on the Supreme Court. Based only on Fortas's judicial views, however, the Senate Republicans launched a successful four-day filibuster of Fortas's nomination in September of 1968. Whenever you hear some Senator saying that there is no history of filibustering a Supreme Court nomination based on his out-of-the-mainstream judicial views, ask them to look up the front page of the Washington Post from September 26, 1968: "A full-dress Republican-led filibuster broke out in the Senate yesterday against a motion to call up the nomination of Justice Abe Fortas for Chief Justice." The New York Times ran as similar story that day, and many news outlets around ran the story later that week.

Alito must not be confirmed, and if necessary, his nomination must be filibustered.

Update:How Convenient!

Alito also said he had no memory of being in a group called Concerned Alumni of Princeton when he was in school. That group formed when Princeton started admitting women and accused the administration of lowering standards to allow women and minorities to attend.

"A document I recently reviewed reflects that I was a member of the group in the 1980s," Alito said. "Apart from that document, I have no recollection of being a member, of attending meetings, or otherwise participating in the activities of the group."

"I have no recollection Senator." Positively Nixonian.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/11/30/161716/41