January 6, 2006
IF YOU DON'T LIKE THE CONSTITUTION HE'S A DISASTER:
Alito's opponents unwittingly make case for him (David Limbaugh, Jan 6, 2006, Townhall)
When you examine their most common objections to Judge Alito, you will find they are usually centered on the very things we should applaud in a judge. What they regard as denigrations of certain rights, we should understand as stewardship of the Constitution itself, without which we would have no rights. Examples abound:When Judge Alito seeks to vindicate the core constitutional principle of equal protection in opposing affirmative action and quotas in college admissions programs, they mischaracterize it as his desire "to restrict African-Americans' admissions" to colleges. When Alito says Congress has no constitutional authority under the Interstate Commerce Clause to regulate intrastate activities involving machine guns, he is castigated as an advocate for "obviously dangerous" weapons.
When Alito voted to strike down a school district’s euphemistically dubbed "anti-harassment" policy as a cleverly crafted ruse to restrict the free speech of certain politically incorrect students, such as those Christians who criticized homosexual behavior, they depicted him not as a champion of First Amendment freedoms but a homophobic bigot.
When he voted to uphold a police strip-search of a woman and her 10-year-old daughter as constitutionally reasonable under the circumstances (to prevent the hiding of illegal drugs) and based on a "common-sense and realistic" reading of the search warrant and its supporting affidavit, they cast him as a chauvinistic thief of privacy rights. When he had the audacity to write a Third Circuit opinion that Congress didn’t have the power to require state governments to comply with the Family and Medical Leave Act, they tarred him as insensitive to employees rather than a laudable defender of state sovereignty.
Think about it. Alito’s staunchest opponents are against him for precisely the reasons they should be supporting him: He would dispassionately interpret the Constitution.
He must be from Kansas. Posted by Orrin Judd at January 6, 2006 7:59 AM
Missouri actually.
Posted by: Robert Schwartz at January 6, 2006 10:49 AMI posted on the other Alito thread dems are holding up his nom for a week.
Probably trying to figure out A. if the personal attack ads will work
or B. what the hell do we do now?
Posted by: Sandy P at January 6, 2006 11:29 AM