"All our great Presidents were leaders of thought at times when certain historic ideas in the life of the nation had to be clarified." -Franklin D. Roosevelt, September 11, 1932

31 October 2005

Alito

I wake up and turn on the computer to get some news, only to find out that the President has nominated a hard right, radical extremist to the Supreme Court of the United States.

I have to get to work, but a couple of things: 1. In 1991 he was the only dissenting voice in a 3rd Circuit ruling striking down a Pennsylvania law that required women to notify their husbands if they planned to get an abortion; and 2. Legal experts consider the 55-year-old Alito so ideologically similar to Justice Antonin Scalia that he has earned the nickname "Scalito."

A more in-depth essay later, but even at first glance this seems easy. This nomination should be filibustered.