What's at stake if Alito is confirmed:

[babylonsister]

I encourage everyone to click on this link for a detailed discussion, issue by issue, of what Alito's confirmation could mean. Then ask yourself, what is every responsible member of the Senate thinking?

http://www.savethecourt.org/site/c.mwK0JbNTJrF/b.839269/k.67D9/The_Stakes_Issue_by_Issue.htm

What's at Stake: Issue by Issue
Just one or two more rigidly ideological justices like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas could radically change many of our fundmanental rights. The nine-member Supreme Court interprets the Constitution and reviews laws that affect a wide range of our rights as Americans. Right now, the Court is closely divided on important questions, so the people appointed to fill the vacancies expected on the Court over the next few years will have a huge effect on individual Americans’ ability to seek justice in the courts. Just one or two more rigidly ideological justices like Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas — the justices who President Bush has called his models for Supreme Court appointments — could radically change many of our fundamental rights.

This page outlines, issues by issue, some of the critical rights and protections at risk with the selection of new Supreme Court Justices:
Campaign Finance Reform
Civil Liberties
Civil Rights
Corporate Power and Abuse
Disability Rights
Environmental Protection
Free Speech
Gay Rights
Immigrants' Rights
Older Americans' Rights
Privacy Rights
Public Education
Religious Liberty
Sensible Gun Control
Women's Rights
Workers' Rights

much more...

[FloridaPat]

1. At stake is the USA, our current lifestyle, the entire free world, and

the life of the planet. But I may be a tad overly pessimistic.

[cosmicdot]

2. thanks for the link

probably why ...

"Wal-Mart Mulls Legal Challenge to Md. Law"


January 13, 2006 7:00 PM EST

ANNAPOLIS, Md. - Wal-Mart Stores Inc., faced with a new Maryland law designed to pressure the retail chain into spending more money on health insurance for its employees, is considering a challenge to the groundbreaking legislation.

~snip~


Wal-Mart must feel 'emboldened' for some reason.


Nothing like election fraud to hijack our country. Not only are these Al Gore's appointment slots which were stolen ... they needed the Senate, too, for confirmation purposes. Mission accomplished.
How can anyone of conscience accept a life-time appointment through usurped power? Yet, Mr. scAlito, et al, seem to relish the moment.

What a tragic day for America.

[McCamy Taylor]

3. Umm...Constitution.

[Emit]

4. Thanks. May I add, too, the notion of

Alito's potential to upset the balance of power to benefit the Executive? Alito is a supporter of the unitary executive theory, as are others on the SC. It could come to pass that future SC decisions could give the Executive unprecedented power. At that point, you can pretty much kiss our democratic republic goodbye, as then President would be King.

Time magazine reported that in 2001 Alito acknowledged that he is a strong proponent of the theory of the "unitary executive" under which all executive branch power is vested in the President--and any incursion on it by Congress should be resisted. This theory has been used by the Bush Administration to justify various extralegal activities, including the infamous torture memos. In Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, Justice Clarence Thomas used the "unitary executive" theory to argue that the Supreme Court's restrictions on the President's unilateral power to lock up US citizens constituted "judicial interference"--a view rejected by the Court's majority.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060123/questions_for_alito

[Bobbieo]

6. What is at stake if Alito is confirmed

All of our basic freedoms!!!!

[acmavm]

5. It's just so much easier to list what's not at stake. Let's just says that

it's EVERYTHING that made this country great, what the Founding Fathers and successive generations of patriots have fought and died for.

[RazzleDazzle]

7. Full blown dictatorship, that's what's at stake

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2367335&mesg_id=2367335