Alito... Yay or Nay

YEP

I really wish we could all stop talking about his "stance" on issues and concentrate on whether he will follow the rule of law and the Constitution

What he feels is less important than whether he will do what's right
 
Portrayed as a "good man" :confused: but would be hard for me to say yaa to a Supreme Court Justice that can't remember anything.:D
 
I vote yea if for no other reason than lard ass Kennedy only disparages the man. (but yea, regardless of what Kennedy thinks)
 
tyme: I think he'll be confirmed, and I'm certain I won't like his stance on abortion laws or drug laws or the first and fourth amendments. If someone forced me at gunpoint to choose between Alito and some socialist nominee, I don't know what I'd do.
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I'm surprised by your response. I think he's about the best we could have reasonably expected, and is quite a bit better than, say, Ginsburg.

I expressed my concerns about Alito in this thread.
 
Yea.

Hopefully he is sincere about a judge being beholden to nothing but the law.
I would like to see judges who read and apply the constitution rather than interpret it. It means exactly what it meant 200 years ago.
 
This is a guy that would uphold the Patriot Act.
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You bring up an interesting point, and it applies to this thread as well.

I assume you mean the same Patriot Act which was passed with almost unanimous majorities in the Congress? What did the Declaration of Independence say about where government gets powers?

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed
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While the votes in Congress at the time aren't a measure of current approval of the PA, it is still quite popular. I'm not a big fan myself, but many Americans are. It's the same with drug prohibition. If a few of us did manage to use the Supreme Court to bind the rest of the country to a strict interpretation of the Constitution, and we did it against the wishes of the vast majority of the rest of the country, what would happen next?

I think if we started winning some of these Supreme Court battles, we'd very quickly start seeing some pretty disturbing amendments to the Constitution. The Supreme Court can't declare the Patriot Act or drug prohibition to be "wrong" or "a bad idea." They could declare them unconstitutional, but that can sometimes be fixed by legislation, and it can always be fixed by a constitutional amendment, if most Americans believe the laws in question are both right and a good idea.
 
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