Alito - take him or leave him

ps, you jerks better not get this thread closed as well. I don't want to hear the word 'Clinton' once!

It's difficult for me to understand how someone who is applying for a lifetime appointment can refuse to answer questions.

I mean, it should be rather clear that he has a responsibility to answer questions put to him by Senators. Claiming that one cannot answer how they would judge on a certain case is BS. Why? Because you know for a fact Bush asked him questions such as this before he was nominated. Why should Congress not have the same right?

Cycloptichorn

""Perhaps the dominant issue is the widespread concern about Judge Alito's position on a woman's right to choose. This has arisen, in part, because of a 1985 statement by Judge Alito that the Constitution does not provide the right to an abortion," said Specter. "This hearing will give Judge Alito the public forum to address the issue, as he has with senators in private meetings, that his personal views and prior advocacy will not determine his judicial decision." --From CNN Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears (Posted 12:30 p.m.)
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I await his answer to this. I happen to agree with the judge in this regard. Nowhere in the Consitiution is there a specific reference to abortion.

woiyo wrote:

""Perhaps the dominant issue is the widespread concern about Judge Alito's position on a woman's right to choose. This has arisen, in part, because of a 1985 statement by Judge Alito that the Constitution does not provide the right to an abortion," said Specter. "This hearing will give Judge Alito the public forum to address the issue, as he has with senators in private meetings, that his personal views and prior advocacy will not determine his judicial decision." --From CNN Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears (Posted 12:30 p.m.)
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I await his answer to this. I happen to agree with the judge in this regard. Nowhere in the Consitiution is there a specific reference to abortion.

hmmm. which could also mean that the constitution does not prohibit it. <shrugs>

i was thinking about this last night. for some reason, it popped into my head that similarly, the constitution doesn't provide for a president to emancipate slaves that were bought and paid for by american citizens.

and yet, it was still the right thing to do.

so i wonder, do the anti-abortion proponents feel like a woman has less right to self determination of her physical body than the mistreated and physically abused slaves had ?

more importantly, does alito feel that way?

just a thought.

It's difficult for me to understand how someone who is applying for a lifetime appointment can refuse to answer questions.

DontTreadOnMe wrote:

woiyo wrote:

""Perhaps the dominant issue is the widespread concern about Judge Alito's position on a woman's right to choose. This has arisen, in part, because of a 1985 statement by Judge Alito that the Constitution does not provide the right to an abortion," said Specter. "This hearing will give Judge Alito the public forum to address the issue, as he has with senators in private meetings, that his personal views and prior advocacy will not determine his judicial decision." --From CNN Supreme Court Producer Bill Mears (Posted 12:30 p.m.)
"

I await his answer to this. I happen to agree with the judge in this regard. Nowhere in the Consitiution is there a specific reference to abortion.

hmmm. which could also mean that the constitution does not prohibit it. <shrugs>

i was thinking about this last night. for some reason, it popped into my head that similarly, the constitution doesn't provide for a president to emancipate slaves that were bought and paid for by american citizens.

and yet, it was still the right thing to do.

so i wonder, do the anti-abortion proponents feel like a woman has less right to self determination of her physical body than the mistreated and physically abused slaves had ?

more importantly, does alito feel that way?

just a thought.

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.amendmentxiii.html

"Amendment XIII

Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.


Section 2. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. "

The abortion issue is a side track. More important, IMO, is any recent role and views he holds towards executive privelege a plenary authority.

but the emancipation took place in 1863, years before the XIII was enacted.