BREAKING: SCALITO SIDES WITH LIBERAL JUSTICES IN FIRST RULING

[Halliburton]

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&u=/ap/20060202/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_death_penalty_13

:wow:

[greenbriar]

1. don't buy it...its a trick

don't look into the light

[debbierlus]

2. Who knows...He may have been shaken from our protest

Maybe, he is going to be hypersensitive to his rulings knowing how strongly he was oppossed.

Probably not, but weirder things have happened.

He is on the court now.

His position is safe.

[electropop]

7. Maybe he out-Roved Rove?

Faked being a reactionary asshole for 25 years so he could sneak onto the Court and do good?

Nah. Just got confused and checked the wrong box because he's inexperienced in Court procedures.

[GrumpyGreg]

Remember Earl Warren?

[electropop]

22. Warren's transformation wasn't quite as dramatic,

but still his precedent offers a tiny glimmer of hope. Perhaps now that Alito doesn't have to worry about politics any longer, he'll begin to listen to his conscience. Or perhaps he'll continue to be an asshole. Time will tell.

[Charlie Brown]

31. I know it's not likely, but

it would be so damn funny if he turned out to be another Warren or Souter.

[Charlie Brown]

3. This is just lip-service

He wants to build up collateral for when he embarks on a conservative tirade.

[AntiFascist]

13. Right, just wait for the one ruling that's going to make our heads explode

[FreedomAngel82]

14. Exactly

[marmar]

27. Exactly...

He's just trying to dupe people into thinking he's not so bad, then he'll get real 1860s on us.

[MakeItSo]

4. i'm gonna get in trouble here

but my sister-in-law's dad is a lawyer in NJ and a dyed in the wool democrat. he's worked quite a bit next to alito and he has a lot of respect for him as a jurist.

it's heresay, but who knows.

no i'm not a freeper troll, folks. and i am nervous about the abortion issue and anti-trust and environmental rulings too.

[helderheid]

9. hope you're right, errrr correct! :)

[judy]

25. That would be great...

I won't hold my breath, but you never know...

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. I Always Hold On To Hope. But It Will Take More Than One Ruling.

But nonetheless, I'm glad he ruled this way this time. I hope it becomes a trend.

[judy]

6. Also, Alito is a Catholic, possibly a member of Opus Dei

Remember that the Catholic Church opposes the death penalty.
Not really a surprise there...
He will probably rule with the Catholics on Roe v. Wade as well.

[KittyWampus]

15. So is Scalia

[Charlie Brown]

16. Roberts, Thomas, and Scalia are also Catholic

This was an extremely odd line-up.

Kennedy is Catholic, too, but he's voted to maintain Roe before.

[slaveplanet]

19. Is it Catholic to

Strip search innocent 10 year old girls?

Is it Catholic to go directly in the face of Constitution when it comes to people being secure in their privacy and effects?

[judy]

23. Well, the Pope has never said anything about

strip searching 10 year olds, for or against,
and personal privacy is definitely not a Catholic notion.

[slaveplanet]

28. I guess no one

ever expects the Inquisition

and personal privacy is definitely not a Catholic notion

yet millions of Irish Catholics had the notion to place as much privacy as possible, between themselves and the crown.

I guess it all boils down to which flavor Catholic you're dealing with

[tocqueville]

32. because it's a Protestantic maybe ?

jeebus

[longship]

8. Careful for the Rope-A-Dope, my friend.

We need to wait and see. Now that we're stuck with Scalito...

[MakeItSo]

11. Sometimes they end up morphing after they get tenure

We need to hook this guy up with a) a gay golf buddy and b) a really sexy liberal woman who can get some pillow time with him.

[longship]

33. Or, maybe a pretty intern or two?

nt

[still_one]

10. see how he rules if cases come up on wire taps

seperation of powers, a woman's right to chose, and civil rights, and unauthorized wire taps

[mvd]

12. He would be one of the biggest surprises in..

political history if he's an independent thinker. I thought Roberts might be a little independent, and so far he's been a big disappointment. You never know, but I'm not convinced until we're further out from the contentious confirmation.

[MakeItSo]

18. I really don't think they're going to do in Roe

The Repubs rely on Roe to split the poor from their own economic self-interests. They use it to get the rural working class base.

What they ARE most definitely going to do is rule in favor of corporations and corporate interests and against the public interest. Which isn't what we need at all.

It's not a hot-button issue but it should be.

[mvd]

20. What I'm worried about is

the prospect of the religious right staying home in 2008 if they don't finally get results. So I don't think Roe is safe. Roberts sounded like Kennedy on Roe, so we'll see.

[Charlie Brown]

21. After 40 years, it would be extremely bizarre to reverse Roe

The court would be undercutting the livelihood of quite a number of clinics and creating a mindbogglingly confusing federal commerce situation regarding where doctors could work and what services they could offer.

I'm not sure if Scalia, Thomas, Roberts, etc. will find it worth the trouble of reversing the decision.

[MakeItSo]

26. That book "What's the Matter with Kansas" opened my eyes

to how much the Right Wing relies on Roe to solidify its base. If Roe goes away, then the lawmakers in the Taliban states are no longer off the hook -- abortion becomes THEIR problem, not the court's problem. With Roe, they get single-issue anti-choice poor people to vote against the minimum wage, health care access etc.

[slaveplanet]

24. Bingo

and don't forget the unitary executive they will use to hand Shrub "Pope like" power

[jsamuel]

17. It is one ruling and this one was right. Lets keep our eyes peeled for

the next one.

[Cleita]

29. Maybe his reputation for being the one dissenting opinion is

that he dissents no matter what the prevailing opinion is. If so, that could be hilarious. Bush appointed a judge who is going to side with the lesser judges (liberals), just because he likes to do that.

I'm afraid though this is probably a fluke.

[tritsofme]

30. Being that this is first day on the Court

he may have erred on the side of caution since he might not have had time to review all the information.

I suspect he'll take his seat next to master Scalia very soon.