Word: alitoã
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Greenfield said that Alito??€™s opinion in the August 2004 case of The Pitt News v. Pappert suggests that the nominee might support FAIR’s arguments...
...invite praise for Alito for being something more than a tail-wagging Bush crony.Alito is the wrong man for the job because he is a conservative ideologue. We fear that, given the chance, he would overturn basic legal protections and reshape the scope of the U.S. government. Several of Alito??€™s past opinions lead us to this conclusion.The most incendiary—although not most extreme—example of Alito??€™s radicalism is his dissent in the 1991 abortion rights case, Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. He supported a law that mandated that...
What, then, has changed since 1990, when Alito was unanimously confirmed by the Senate? Our colleagues argue that his subsequent judicial record displays alarming right-wing tendencies. The staff’s portrait of Alito, however, bears no resemblance to reality—Alito??€™s decisions have been anything but dogmatically conservative—and, moreover, conservative values hardly disqualify one from sitting on the Supreme Court...
...that there is a difference between constitutional interpretation and policymaking. When we vote for our legislators, we vote for policies. But when we evaluate judges, we should consider only their ability to apply a fair and consistent standard of constitutional interpretation, even if it produces effects that we dislike. Alito??€™s record proves that he is an impartial and qualified jurist with a judicial philosophy that is well within the mainstream of modern jurisprudence. These are the only criteria that that should concern...