Alito And His Critics: The Double-Edged Sword Of Precedents

An editorial in today’s Washington Post joins many others concerned about Judge Alito in urging that he be questioned closely about the views he expressed in a 1985 job application memo, in which by now everyone knows he wrote that he was proud of his work on cases

in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.

As I’ve recently written (here), I find it remarkable that so many liberals today apparently believe that racial and ethnic quotas should be allowed, but now Sen. Joe Biden, an influential Democrat on the Judiciary committee, suggests that the strongest opposition to Judge Alito may not be based on either abortion or racial quotas.

“The part that jeopardizes it (Alito’s nomination) more is his quotes in there saying that he had strong disagreement with the Warren Court particularly on reapportionment

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  1. actus November 20, 2005 at 11:10 pm | | Reply

    I’m more interested in how he considered the National Review formative in his youth. They were writing some awful things about the civil rights movement. I’m curious how formative that was for Alito.

  2. Fred November 21, 2005 at 9:46 pm | | Reply

    I’m wondering why Republicans are calling for an Ethics investigation on Murtha for doing the something very simular to what Alito did when he,“failed to abide by a 1990 pledge to recuse himself from deciding cases involving a mutual fund, a brokerage house, and his sister’s law firm.”

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