Unless and until someone comes up with something besides he's conservative.
Like, he lacks judicial temperament, like Scalia. Or he lacks a mind of any sort at all, like Thomas. Or she's a good lawyer but oh my god we are talking about the supreme court of the United States, George Bush notwithstanding*, like Harriet: that was one of the most obscene gestures I've been exposed to, and that's including the roped off section in the porn shops in Time Square.
Here's what Edwards (who, alas, is supposed to be reasonable says):
Alito is a far-from-moderate judge in the mold of Justice Antonin Scalia. His record is troubling: he has tried to sharply restrict a woman's right to choose and to eliminate protection for unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act. He has regularly worked to cut back on protections for the victims of discrimination based on race and sex. Just imagine how he might restrict other essential freedoms if he is allowed to sit on the Supreme Court.
First, we want a person with a mind. And then we hand that person the constitution, and we bring cases before that person and they work with all sorts of other legal minds and 8 others on the bench but mostly, they have the constitution and bring their own brilliant minds to bear. That's all I ask.
If they can find that there can be no abortions unless the wife pays the rapist 3 times her annual salary, if they can find the all the Jews have to be roasted at 350 degrees and then served on toast to Arabs, if they should find that big lips and dark skin really do render a person sub-human, if they can really do that, the constitution and the executive branch and the legislative branch and the rest of the world notwithstanding, then this is a crap shoot: put your bets down, shooter has the dice, and lets get on with the game. Just keep all the mumbling praying down to a whisper so we can hear the points.
You cannot break something by adding or subtracting one twit, not if it was not already broken, and badly broken at that.
Now, could we please get Alito on the bench and do something sensible, like arrest and prosecute Bush for war crimes?
*How the f**k can anyone take us seriously with George Bush as the president? Really. Why don't we all just strap on great big day glow luminescent dildos and whatever and just wander the streets like open house at the asylum day?
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Although this is NOT the mind of a "great thinker." But maybe the NY Times is cherry picking. (The NY Times??? That bastion of fair reporting!!!?)
When lawyers for a black death-row inmate sought to demonstrate bias in jury selection by using statistics, Judge Alito dismissed that as akin to arguing that Americans were biased toward left-handers because left-handed men had won five out of six of the preceding presidential elections.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/01/opinion/01tues1.html?hp
More and more, Alito seems like a reasonable man. He has one serious problem: Bush.
One really has to look closely at anything Bush signs up for. The man is a total fuckup. But Sam Alito is NOT Bush's choice!
Bush does not make a choice! He is told what to do, and like it or no, there are some Americans that have remained, albeit undercover, in the Bush administration.
The Democrats, failing to lead in the real battle, will yet fail again by calling on its loyal (and stupid, because, loyalty demands at least a measure of stupidity) to fight one that they will lose, that is not worth winning. It all comes down to that basic man to man thing: pull out your cock and lets see who's is bigger. OK. Now it's settled: the gal with the biggest tits gets the job, and the guy with the biggest cock, he gets to be the boss.
That is a helluva way to run a railroad.
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