Bush administration objects to media describing Alito as conservative

[shance]

Quick!! Somebody hide the truth!!


Excerpts:

The Bush administration is mounting an aggressive effort to counter a Knight Ridder story that described Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito as a committed judicial conservative.

The attack came after Senate Democrats circulated Knight Ridder's assessment of Alito's judicial record for possible use against him at his confirmation hearings next month.

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The reporters also concluded that Alito "rarely supports individual rights," shows "a strong deference to police authority" and is extremely skeptical about claims of racial discrimination. Henderson covers the Supreme Court for Knight Ridder. Mintz, a reporter for the San Jose Mercury News, a Knight Ridder paper, worked on the Alito project during a stint in Washington.

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Administration officials scrambled last week to counter speculation that Alito would seek to ban abortions after the release of a 1985 memo he wrote in which he outlined a long-term strategy to overturn Roe v. Wade, the 1973 ruling that made abortions legal nationwide.

The White House and other Alito allies also downplayed the significance of a letter that Alito wrote later in 1985 expressing the opinion that "the Constitution does not protect the right to an abortion." At the time, Alito was seeking a promotion in the anti-abortion Reagan administration.


http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/politics/13343330.htm

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

1. So do I. He's a fascist.

[shance]

2. LOL!*

If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck.....

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Yep

If the shoe fits! They're probably trying to pass him off as a religious moderate.

[Telly Savalas]

3. If the Bush Administration is so averse to nominating a conservative...

then why don't they just nominate someone that is clearly and openly Liberal?

[FreedomAngel82]

7. The fundies and Harriet Miers

Bush wouldn't get his judge any other way.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. They can't have it both ways.

They've been selling him to their wack job base by emphasizing his conservative credentials, but they're afraid normal people will figure out that he's farther to the right than Darth Vader. So let's not call him conservative. Instead the Bushies will pretend he respects the Constitution and the rule of law, and meanwhile they'll use their various code words to suck up to their base.

BTW, does anyone else find it at all ironic that "al Qaeda" is Arabic for "the base"?

[chelsea0011]

5. Maybe they would happier with "Wirehanger" Sam?

[Cleita]

8. Then we should call him what he is, a Taliban mullah.n/t

[AlCzervik]

9. Tough shit.

[BrklynLiberal]

11. That is exactly what I was going to post.

[AlCzervik]

12. Great minds--. It's always a toss up between tough shit and boofuckinghoo

for me.

[G_j]

10. he is a moderate

with X-treme conservative views
what is so hard to understand?
:shrug:

[shance]

15. "moderate" like Mussolini is decribed?

:)

[proud patriot]

13. Why is Bush Ashamed of Conservatism ?

:think:

[shance]

14. Well, truth takes a back seat to sneaking Alito in under the radar.

n/t

[Doctor_J]

16. They're supposed to be PROUD of that adjective

it's about damn time that became an epithet,