Tuesday, November 15, 2005

Alito Flip-Flops

This is too funny. So...did he lie to the last guy who wanted to hire him? If so, he's lying now, if not, he was lying then. Either way...why would we put a liar on the bench? Oh...not coz he's an activist judge but because he's a political judge:
"U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Tuesday downplayed a 1985 job application in which he opposed abortion, saying that as a federal judge he rules on law without personal opinion, a Democratic senator said.

''I don't give heed to my personal view. What I do is interpret the law',' Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California quoted Alito, a federal appeals judge the past 15 years, as telling her.

Feinstein met with President George W. Bush's nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor amid new concerns over the application in which Alito, then a lawyer in the Reagan administration, wrote he backed its efforts to ban abortion and racial quotas.

''It was different then',' Feinstein quoted Alito as saying. ''I was an advocate seeking a job, a political job and that was 1985'.'"


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