Alito and Abortion
Today Captain Ed points out that so far anyway, there have hardly been tsunamis unleashed on the Left in the aftermath of the earthshaking revelation that Sam Alito said in a 1985 document that the Constitution did not protect the right to abortion.
The NYTimes article that the Cap'n links to quotes Alito as saying the sentiments were simply the views of "an advocate seeking a job."
Well, that doesn't exactly mollify me.
I'd be a little worried if Alito is the kind of person who makes political or judicial statements on the basis of expediency.
The Left has emptied a double-barreled shotgun into the Constitution with the Roe v. Wade decision.
The first barrel was the abysmal decision itself. But the second barrel is the Left's insistence of making abortion a litmus test for the Supreme Court, and disqualifying any nominee who doesn't find a right to abortion in an 18th century document, or in an amendment written to address freed slaves.
Because of this, we cannot have public debates in the confirmation process about the proper role of the Court. Perhaps Alito made this comment out of a need to observe this protocol that Abortion Is Just Something We Don't Talk About In Public, as if abortion were akin to Uncle Hank's drinking problem.
I would like to see conservative judicial nominees stop making excuses for their firm beliefs.
The NYTimes article that the Cap'n links to quotes Alito as saying the sentiments were simply the views of "an advocate seeking a job."
Well, that doesn't exactly mollify me.
I'd be a little worried if Alito is the kind of person who makes political or judicial statements on the basis of expediency.
The Left has emptied a double-barreled shotgun into the Constitution with the Roe v. Wade decision.
The first barrel was the abysmal decision itself. But the second barrel is the Left's insistence of making abortion a litmus test for the Supreme Court, and disqualifying any nominee who doesn't find a right to abortion in an 18th century document, or in an amendment written to address freed slaves.
Because of this, we cannot have public debates in the confirmation process about the proper role of the Court. Perhaps Alito made this comment out of a need to observe this protocol that Abortion Is Just Something We Don't Talk About In Public, as if abortion were akin to Uncle Hank's drinking problem.
I would like to see conservative judicial nominees stop making excuses for their firm beliefs.
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