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...Israeli pilots. The truth is, that I have repeatedly defended the right of Israeli pilots to publicize their disagreement with Israel’s policy of targeted killing, despite my personal disagreement with their views on the merits of the issue. Indeed, I have praised Israel for allowing such dissent even from its own soldiers. I have never—and would never—“advise[d] their government on how to suppress the free speech of Israeli pilots.” Finkelstein’s statement that I did so is a categorical...
...from the "judicial monastery," Alito has "more prior judicial experience than any Supreme Court nominee in more than 70 years," as the President noted. Alito's voluminous record, including some 300 opinions, offers a wealth of material for both sides to pick over. Within days of his nomination, his dissent argument for upholding a Pennsylvania law requiring a woman to notify her husband before having an abortion and his opinion supporting a city hall religious-holiday display had become some of the reasons to set up the barricades...
...rights. The last one may become an especially sensitive topic during his hearings. Since 1995 the Rehnquist Court has struck down, in whole or in part, more than 30 federal statutes, essentially arguing that Congress had overreached and such legislation should be left to the states. Alito's controversial dissent arguing to invalidate a federal law banning machine guns nationwide leads many Senators to suspect that he would try to further the trend. His reasoning, which laid out why Congress cannot use the commerce clause of the Constitution to ban the firearms, was eventually rejected by the Supreme Court...
...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 wives receive their husbands’ permission to seek abortions. This law would have subjected battered women to further abuse from their spouses, and the Supreme Court rightly rejected...
...allegations of the president’s lavish spending on the university’s tab prompted open dissent from students and faculty. The former held rallies demanding Ladner’s resignation, and the A.U. student government supported removal without a severance package...