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Alito Deconstructed

Media Matters: Top Alito myths and falsehoods

Center For American Progress: The Alito Myths

Balkinization: The Basic Case Against Alito

And this should send shivers up your spine and down the other side…

Christian conservatives rally for Judge Alito:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Christian conservative leader Rev. Jerry Falwell said on Sunday that confirming Federal Appeals Court judge Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court would be the biggest victory for his constituency in three decades.

“What we’ve worked on for 30 years, to mobilize people of faith and value in this country, what we’ve done through these years is coming to culmination right now,” Falwell said at a rally on the eve of Alito’s confirmation hearing.

“Now we’re looking at what we really started on 30 years ago, reconstruction of a court system gone awry,” Falwell said at a rally at a Baptist church in Philadelphia and broadcast on Christian radio and television.

“There could be a reconstruction of the U.S. Supreme Court in our immediate lifetime,” said Falwell.

Help prevent theocratic dictatorships: It’s time to call your senator, folks.

Live video of the hearings available via C-SPAN here.

SCOTUSblog is liveblogging the hearings here.

See also this metafilter thread.

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2 Responses to “Alito Deconstructed”

  1. pseudosig Says:
    January 10th, 2006 at 9:51 am

    In principal, many of their (Bush Admin.) contributions have completely sidestepped any debates on the constitutionality of their authority. For instance, consider the Patriot Act. There are many elements of the Patriot Act that obfuscate, through the supposed importance of expediency, the complete undermining of our constitutional rights. Another example is in that of the domestic spying program and the authorization of searching (and acquiring evidence) without a court warrant. Once again, completely undermining the constitutional legitimacy, and therefore our God given rights.

    So never could I have predicted such a quant situation for an upcoming Court Justice. With the likely pressing for Alito’s views on domestic spying in the U.S., we have the intersection between our constitutional rights and the potential Justice’s view on the constitutionality of it all. So in conclusion, Alito could indeed go down in flames, and for that, I’m very hopeful that he does.

    The Farce Report

  2. tristero Says:
    January 16th, 2006 at 11:07 pm

    Well, Alito didn’t go down in flames. For the Liberal Media, it was a big yawner/nothing to see here folks type of event.

    Jonathan Alter nails the vibe:

    ”What if we faced a constitutional crisis and hardly anyone noticed? As he quietly mastered the tiresome cat-and-mouse game inside the Senate Judiciary Committee last week, Judge Samuel Alito gave few hints of where he stood on a matter that goes to the heart of what it means to live in a republic. With a few exceptions, the media coverage didn’t help. It’s so much easier to talk about Joe Biden’s big mouth or a right-wing Princeton alumni group or Mrs. Alito’s tears than to figure out how the country should prevent a president of the United States from castrating the United States Congress.”

    From Newsweek:A Power Outage on Capitol Hill

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