Git Ready fer An-Udder Battle on the Hill... :=8/
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Here we go again. Documents just released show the true colors of Baby Bush's latest Supreme Court nominee - yet an-udder far, far-right butt-hole (surprised??). Check it out:


Updated: 2:26 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2005
WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote back in 1985 that he was proud of his Reagan-era work helping the government argue that “the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion,” documents showed Monday.
Alito, who was applying in 1985 to become deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration, said in a document that he was proud of his work in the solicitor general’s office from 1982-1985, where he helped “to advance legal positions in which I personally believe very strongly.”
“I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government argued that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion,” he said.

The document was included in more than 100 pages of material about Alito released Monday by the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library.
Abortion will be a key topic at Alito’s confirmation hearings in January. Alito, 55, has told senators in private meetings that he had “great respect” for the precedent set by the 1973 Supreme Court ruling, Roe v. Wade, that legalized abortion, but he did not commit to upholding it.
In the document, Alito also declared himself a “lifelong registered” Republican and a Federalist Society member and said he had donated money to the National Republican Congressional Committee, the National Conservative Political Action Committee and several GOP candidates. Sounds like an "activist judge" to me... :=8/

When he wrote this document, he was working as an assistant to the solicitor general, where he stayed from 1981 to 1987. Although he sought the job of deputy assistant attorney general in 1985, he did not win that job until 1987.

“I am and always have been a conservative and an adherent to the same philosophical views that I believe are central to this administration,” Alito said.
Alito wrote that he believed “very strongly in limited government, federalism, free enterprise, the supremacy of the elected branches of government, the need for a strong defense and effective law enforcement and the legitimacy of a government role in protecting traditional values.” Huh?? Just what does that mean exactly??? :=8/

In the document, Alito said he drew inspiration from the “writings of William F. Buckley, Jr., The National Review and Barry Goldwater’s 1964 campaign.”
“In college, I developed a deep interest in constitutional law, motivated in large part by disagreement with Warren Court decisions, particularly in the areas of criminal procedure, the Establishment Clause and reapportionment,” he said.

Maybe, if we're all lucky, Baby Bush won't have the moomentum or the political clout to push this albatross around the neck of the American public, but it seems likely he will - the big question is will Democrats on the Hill grow a pair and stand up to this far-right takeover of the Supreme Court, a far-right that even few moderate Republicans will stomach willingly? Stay tuned to the farce that is American politics, and find out cow many of your rights will go down the drain...

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- posted by The MooCow @ 2:54 PM