Scalito's abortion testimony...what a sneaky, deceptive little fucker.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.cnn.com/

Alito: Courts should follow precedents

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito today reaffirmed his respect for precedent as he sought a careful distinction on how he would rule on abortion if confirmed. Answering questions about a 1985 job application where he said did not support the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, Alito said, it was "a true expression of my views at the time" when he "was performing a different role." He said if confronted with an abortion case on the Supreme Court, "the first question I would ask" would be whether precedence should prevail.

SO...it was "a true expression of his views at the time" when he "was performing a different role." That means he'll S.T.F.U. in 2006 and beyond, right? NO..."the first question he would ask" would be whether precedence should prevail. So if it's a PRECEDENT and you DON'T FUCKING LIKE IT, user your power to do AWAY with it, which is the REAL question you're being asked ANYWAY, beeyatch...

:grr:

[BlueManDude]

1. Here's Clarence Thomas during his hearing

re Roe v. Wade

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: Have you ever, private gatherings, otherwise, stated whether you felt that it was properly decided or not?

CLARENCE THOMAS: Senator, in trying to recall and reflect on that. I don't recollect commenting one way or the other. There were again debates about it in various places but I generally did not participate. I don't remember or recall participating, senator.

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: So you don't ever recall stating whether you thought it was properly decided or not?

CLARENCE THOMAS: I can't recall saying one way or the other, senator.

SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: Well, with all due respect, judge, I have some difficulty with your answer that somehow this has been so far removed from your discussions or feelings during the years since it was decided while you were in law school.


Yet now he sits on the USSC and probably will preside there for another 25 years - long after R v W is history.

Thank you Democrats for looking out for us.

[...of J.Temperance]

2. Scalito has dead eyes, like a shark and has no teeth...FILIBUSTER HIM

I don't trust freaks that have dead eyes, like a shark and have no teeth.

Filibuster his ass.

[jamesinca]

4. You be nice to sharks!!!

I know what they are up to, and they know what they are up to, there are no games being played. You owe every shark of every specie an apology. If you would kindly write out a $25 dollar check to the shark foundation of your choosing to go along with that apology we can get past this incident. <sarcasm>

[...of J.Temperance]

5. Okay...

I apologize to every shark specie...and the checks in the mail :)

[gratuitous]

3. He also says stare decisis isn't an inexorable command

And since he hasn't been asked about the Dred Scott decision or Plessy v. Ferguson, it's pretty obvious to folks paying attention just what he's talking about. It's dog whistle politics at its best (or worst). The people who want to make women's uteruses public property are overjoyed; everyone else will debate and dissect what Alito could possibly mean by saying that, including a lot of people who know exactly what he's talking about, but who want to fog the issue until it's too late.

Katie Couric, in her infinite wisdom, has declared that most young women aren't feminists -- whatever in hell that means. But they will become feminists when their most personal medical and reproductive decisions and control over their own person is ceded to the State.