Watching Judge Alito being a idiot.
When ask about a case where he had a financial interest
and he promised the senate he would recuse himself whenever
any case came before him involving that financial interest, yet
when that financial interest case came before him, he did not recuse
himself, as he promised, and he ruled in favor of the financial
interest he has. His response was oh, I forgot, I would have done
it differently and my personal favorite, the light did not go on.
I can image that. Yet Sen. Kennedy did note that even the
lawyers in the case knew about it because they mentioned it
in briefs to the judge. When asked about the famous memo in
1985 about Roe vs wade needs to be overturned, alito said that
was his personal view at the time, but ask about it now, alito
said it was in the past. he then brought up stare decisis, which
means “to stand by that which is decided” so he then said,
he would as a supreme court justice determine whether the doctrine
of stare decisis COMPELLED upholding Roe. That makes it clear
alito would vote to overturn Roe UNLESS the doctrine of stare decisis
compelled otherwise. As for stare decisis, alito has repeatedly that
“it is not an inexorable command”. Which is to say, alito will vote to
overturn Roe if he is confirmed to the supreme court.
When ask about the famous case about strip searching a 10
year old girl and whether it is legal and right, he danced and
tried to claim the people in question, had a reputation of
threatening people, which meant it was just darn dandy to
strip search a 10 year old girl, on the basis of some
reputation!
When ask about judicial restraint, I.E. so called judicial activism,
he said he felt that they must rule only on the law, not to expand
outside of that, which is great, however under that thinking,
that means he disagrees with “brown vs board of education”
That means he disagree with Roe, that means he disagree with
with such basic ideas as Miranda and police misconduct, and
most importantly that fundamental idea of one vote for one person,
which means he disagree with the 1960 warren court opinion that
which invalidated a plan to redraw the city limits of Tuskegee ALA,
which reaffirms the idea of one vote for one person. It is a shame
we have supreme court nominees that disagree with such a basic
American principle as letting people to vote.
Kropotkin