Why Alito? Booman explains: Roe destroyed, Bush’s crimes buried. Petition:

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Why Alito? Booman explains: Roe destroyed, Bush’s crimes buried. Petition:

Edited on Mon Oct-31-05 04:05 PM by Nothing Without Hope

Booman in his insightful Booman Tribune blog explains the significance of Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito for Supreme Court. It’s not only about appeasing the hard-right’s insistence on overturning Roe v. Wade, it’s about burying his own crimes.

http://www2.boomantribune.com/story/2005/10/31/135448/77

Casey at the Court

by BooMan,?Mon Oct 31st, 2005 at 01:54:48 PM EDT

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By putting Porter Goss at the CIA, Michael Chertoff at Homeland Security, John Negroponte at the NIA, Abu Gonzales at Attorney General, and attempting to put his personal lawyer on the Supreme Court, he hopes to cover up his abuse of the intelligence community, his torture policy, and his other crimes.

The nomination of Samuel Alito represents Plan B. He now proposes to overturn Casey { http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_Parenthood_v._Casey} and Roe, and anyone who fails to support Bush through his many travails, is effectively abandoning the anti-choice movement at THE critical time.

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By replacing O'Connor with Alito, he flips the Casey case.

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=55882
Alito has argued that significant restrictions on a woman's right to choose are constitutional. In Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey, Alito argued that all of the proposed law's restrictions on a woman's right to choose -– including a spousal-notification provision struck down by the Third Circuit and, later, the Supreme Court -– were constitutional. Alito dissented in part because he would have gone even further than the rest of the court.

Versus:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20050718/shapiro
It fell to O'Connor, along with fellow Reagan appointee Anthony Kennedy and George H. W. Bush appointee David Souter, to complete the unfinished business of Roe v. Wade with Planned Parenthood v. Casey in 1992. Their joint opinion, establishing that "the ability of women to participate equally in the economic and social life of the Nation has been facilitated by their ability to control their reproductive lives," stands as a hallmark of judicial sanity, and as the Supreme Court's most firmly persuasive articulation of women's rights.

So, this is the showdown we have all feared and hoped to avoid. Alito is on the record as opposing Casey. He is not a stealth candidate. He is openly hostile to women's reproductive rights. The American people do not support overturning Roe or Casey. Arlen Specter { http://specter.senate.gov/} claims to be pro-choice. He is the only pro-choice Republican on the Judiciary Committee, but he is the Chairman. Arlen needs to know that he is the last roadblock preventing a right-wing steamroller from crushing the federal protections of a woman's right to choose.

People For the American Way has already sent out an email on Alito’s nomination:

Subject: Bush Nominates Alito for Supreme Court
Date: October 31, 2005 10:04:14 AM EST

Bush Nominates Alito for Supreme Court

The President has given in to the right wing's demand to be rewarded for his reelection, nominating Judge Samuel Alito to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court. The extremist faction that helped kill Harriet Miers' nomination has gotten what it wanted: a nominee in the mold of Thomas and Scalia. In fact, Alito has earned such a reputation for ideological activism while serving on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit that he has been nicknamed "Scalito."

On the appeals court, Alito endorsed radical restrictions on reproductive choice -- such as requiring that a woman notify her husband before obtaining an abortion -- raising serious concerns about the future of Roe v. Wade if he is confirmed. He is a leader of the radical right-wing legal movement to prevent the federal government from enforcing civil rights protections. He has claimed that the federal government cannot fully apply the Family and Medical Leave Act to state employees. He has even argued that Congress could not enact a ban on the possession of machine guns. If confirmed, Alito could be a threat to our rights and liberties for a generation or more.

President Bush wasn't willing to stand up to the far right -- now it is up to the American people and our senators to stand up for the Constitution. Sign our petition urging your senators to oppose Alito's nomination to be associate justice of the Supreme Court.

http://www.SaveTheCourt.org/StopAlito

Sign Petition to Stop Alito: http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M711983399037579520537765}

“Dear Senators,

The Senate must reject President Bush's attempt to reward right-wing special interests by nominating Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court of the United States. Alito's record as an ideological activist makes his confirmation a threat to civil rights protections, reproductive and privacy rights, environmental protections, religious liberty, and laws safeguarding workers.

I urge you to vote not to confirm Samuel Alito to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court of the United States.”

Add hour name HERE: http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M711983309037579520537765

It’s time to fight, or the GOP will succeed in their mission to destroy the impartiality of the Supreme Court just as they have in the other two branches of government.

Why Alito? Booman explains: Roe destroyed, Bush’s crimes buried. Petition:

Casey at the Court

People For the American Way has already sent out an email on Alito’s nomination:

Bush Nominates Alito for Supreme Court

Samuel Alito’s America