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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=080320915-16112005>Please look
over these collection of quotations from big name supporters of abortion rights
who admit that the <U>Roe v. Wade</U> decision is seriously
flawed! </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=080320915-16112005></SPAN></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=080320915-16112005><FONT face=Arial><FONT color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=400362815-16112005><STRONG><FONT
size=4>Art</FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </FONT></FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> Manuel Miranda
[mailto:mmiranda@att.net]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, November 16, 2005 7:17
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Undisclosed-Recipient:;<BR><B>Subject:</B> Third Branch News
11/16 Look who's talking <BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV>1) Some good work from reporter Tim Carney. (In case you do not
recognize Ben Wittes' name, he is the editorial writer on judicial issues for
the Washington Post.)</DIV>
<DIV>2) Meyerson of the Post thinks a gun has been fired. Let
the debate begin. </DIV>
<DIV>3) Clips.</DIV>
<DIV>4) The NYTimes defines bald assertion. </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT
size=5>_______________________________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><A
href="http://www.timothypcarney.com/?page_id=176"><STRONG>http://www.timothypcarney.com/?page_id=176</STRONG></A><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial"><o:p><STRONG> </STRONG></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<H2><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=5><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 18pt"><STRONG>Pro-choice Criticisms of
Roe<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></H2>
<P><EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><STRONG>This is a work in progress. One key source of
this info was Ed Whelan’s </STRONG><A
href="http://www.eppc.org/printVersion/print_pub.asp?pubID=2377"><STRONG>testimony
</STRONG></A><STRONG>before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the
Constitution. A John Cornyn press release was also a helpful
resource.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></I></EM></P>
<P><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt; FONT-STYLE: italic"><STRONG>Because legal arguments are
often very nuanced, I am working to get links to the full texts of all the
quoted materials so that readers can view these quotations in their full
context. With some articles, this process is more difficult than with
others.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></I></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=2><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"><o:p><STRONG> </STRONG></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Laurence Tribe</SPAN></FONT><STRONG>
— <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. Lawyer for Al Gore in
2000.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“One of the most curious things about
<EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Roe </FONT></I></EM>is that, behind its own
verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be
found.”<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">“The Supreme Court, 1972
Term—Foreword: Toward a Model of Roles in the Due Process of Life and Law,” 87
<EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Harvard Law
Review</SPAN></FONT></I></EM> 1, 7 (1973).</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>
<HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2>
</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Ruth Bader
Ginsburg</SPAN></FONT><STRONG> — Associate Justice of the <st1:country-region
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> Supreme
Court<o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“<EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Roe</FONT></I></EM>, I believe, would have been more
acceptable as a judicial decision if it had not gone beyond a ruling on the
extreme statute before the court. … Heavy-handed judicial intervention was
difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved,
conflict.”<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><EM><I><FONT face=Verdana
size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">North
Carolina</SPAN></FONT></I></EM></st1:place></st1:State><EM><I><FONT face=Verdana
size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> Law
Review</SPAN></FONT></I></EM><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">,
1985</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>
<HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2>
</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Edward Lazarus</SPAN></FONT><STRONG>
— Former clerk to Harry Blackmun.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“As
a matter of constitutional interpretation and judicial method, <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Roe </FONT></I></EM>borders on the indefensible. I say
this as someone utterly committed to the right to choose, as someone who
believes such a right has grounding elsewhere in the Constitution instead of
where <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Roe </FONT></I></EM>placed it, and as
someone who loved <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Roe</FONT></I></EM>’s
author like a grandfather.”<BR>….<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“What, exactly, is the problem with <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Roe</FONT></I></EM>? The problem, I believe, is that it
has little connection to the Constitutional right it purportedly interpreted. A
constitutional right to privacy broad enough to include abortion has no
meaningful foundation in constitutional text, history, or precedent - at least,
it does not if those sources are fairly described and reasonably faithfully
followed.”<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG>“</STRONG><A
href="http://writ.corporate.findlaw.com/lazarus/20021003.html"><STRONG>The
Lingering Problems with <EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Roe v.
Wade</SPAN></FONT></I></EM>, and Why the Recent Senate Hearings on Michael
McConnell’s Nomination Only Underlined Them</STRONG></A><STRONG>,” FindLaw Legal
Commentary, Oct. 3, 2002</STRONG></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“[A]s a matter of constitutional interpretation,
even most liberal jurisprudes — if you administer truth serum — will tell you it
is basically indefensible.”<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG>“</STRONG><A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/08/AR2005070802261_pf.html"><STRONG>Liberals,
Don’t Make Her an Icon</STRONG></A><STRONG>” <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on"><EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Washington</SPAN></FONT></I></EM></st1:place></st1:State><EM><I><FONT
face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> Post</SPAN></FONT></I></EM>
July 10, 2003.</STRONG></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>
<HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2>
</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">William
Saletan</SPAN><STRONG> — Slate columnist who left the GOP 2004 because it was
too pro-life. <o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“Blackmun’s [Supreme Court] papers vindicate
every indictment of <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Roe</FONT></I></EM>:
invention, overreach, arbitrariness, textual indifference.”
<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG>“</STRONG><A
href="http://www.legalaffairs.org/issues/May-June-2005/feature_saleton_mayjun05.msp"><STRONG>Unbecoming
Justice Blackmun,</STRONG></A><STRONG>” <EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Legal Affairs</SPAN></FONT></I></EM>, May/June
2005.</STRONG></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>
<HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2>
</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">John Hart
Ely</SPAN><STRONG> — <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Yale</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType>, <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Stanford</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Roe</SPAN></FONT></I></EM> “is not constitutional law
and gives almost no sense of an obligation to try to
be.”<BR>….<o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“What is frightening about <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Roe </FONT></I></EM>is that this super-protected right is
not inferable from the language of the Constitution, the framers’ thinking
respecting the specific problem in issue, any general value derivable from the
provisions they included, or the nation’s governmental structure. Nor is it
explainable in terms of the unusual political impotence of the group judicially
protected vis-à-vis the interest that legislatively prevailed over it.… At times
the inferences the Court has drawn from the values the Constitution marks for
special protection have been controversial, even shaky, but never before has its
sense of an obligation to draw one been so obviously lacking.”
<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">“The Wages of Crying Wolf: A
Comment on <EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Roe v.
Wade</SPAN></FONT></I></EM>,” 82 <EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Yale Law Journal</SPAN></FONT></I></EM>, 920,
935-937 (1973).</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>
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</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Benjamin
Wittes</SPAN><STRONG> — <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Washington</FONT></I></EM></st1:place></st1:State><EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> Post</FONT></I></EM>
<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Roe </SPAN></FONT></I></EM>“is a lousy opinion that
disenfranchised millions of conservatives on an issue about which they care
deeply.”<o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG>“</STRONG><A
href="http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200501/wittes"><STRONG>Letting Go of
<EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Roe</SPAN></FONT></I></EM></STRONG></A><STRONG>,”
<EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The Atlantic
Monthly</SPAN></FONT></I></EM>, Jan/Feb
2005.</STRONG></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>
<HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2>
</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Richard
Cohen</SPAN><STRONG> — <st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Washington</FONT></I></EM></st1:place></st1:State><EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman"> Post</FONT></I></EM>
<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“[T]he very basis of the <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Roe v. Wade</FONT></I></EM> decision — the one that
grounds abortion rights in the Constitution — strikes many people now as faintly
ridiculous. Whatever abortion may be, it cannot simply be a matter of
privacy.”<BR>….<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“As
a layman, it’s hard for me to raise profound constitutional objections to the
decision. But it is not hard to say it confounds our common-sense understanding
of what privacy is.<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>If
a Supreme Court ruling is going to affect so many people then it ought to rest
on perfectly clear logic and up-to-date science. <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Roe </FONT></I></EM>, with its reliance on trimesters and
viability, has a musty feel to it, and its argument about privacy raises more
questions than it answers.”<BR>….<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Roe</SPAN></FONT></I></EM> “is a Supreme Court decision
whose reasoning has not held up. It seems more fiat than
argument.”<BR>….<o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“Still, a bad decision is a bad decision. If the
best we can say for it is that the end justifies the means, then we have not
only lost the argument — but a bit of our soul as
well.”<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG>“</STRONG><A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/19/AR2005101901974.html"><STRONG>Support
Choice, Not <EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Roe</SPAN></FONT></I></EM></STRONG></A><STRONG>”
<st1:State w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Washington</SPAN></FONT></I></EM></st1:place></st1:State><EM><I><FONT
face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> Post</SPAN></FONT></I></EM>,
October 19, 2005.</STRONG></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
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face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>
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</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Alan
Dershowitz</SPAN><STRONG> — <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Harvard</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Law</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">School</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Roe v. Wade</SPAN></FONT></I></EM> and <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Bush v. Gore</FONT></I></EM> “represent opposite sides of
the same currency of judicial activism in areas more appropriately left to the
political processes…. Judges have no special competence, qualifications, or
mandate to decide between equally compelling moral claims (as in the abortion
controversy)…. [C]lear governing constitutional principles … are not present in
either case.”<o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P><STRONG><EM><I><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Supreme Injustice: How the High
Court Hijacked Election 2000</SPAN></FONT></I></EM><FONT face=Verdana
size=1><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"> (<st1:State
w:st="on">New York</st1:State>: <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Oxford</st1:City></st1:place>) 2001, p.
194.</SPAN></FONT><BR><o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>
<HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2>
</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt">Cass Sunstein</SPAN></FONT><STRONG> —
<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType> of
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Chicago</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and a Democratic
adviser on judicial nominations<o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“In
the Court’s first confrontation with the abortion issue, it laid down a set of
rules for legislatures to follow. The Court decided too many issues too quickly.
The Court should have allowed the democratic processes of the states to adapt
and to generate sensible solutions that might not occur to a set of judges.”
<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><STRONG><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">“The Supreme Court 1995 Term:
FOREWORD: LEAVING THINGS UNDECIDED,” 110 <EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">Harvard Law Review</SPAN></FONT></I></EM> 6, 20
(1996).</SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></STRONG></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“What I think is that it just doesn’t have the
stable status of <EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Brown </FONT></I></EM>or
<EM><I><FONT face="Times New Roman">Miranda </FONT></I></EM>because it’s been
under internal and external assault pretty much from the beginning…. As a
constitutional matter, I think <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Roe</FONT></I></EM> was way overreached. I wouldn’t vote
to overturn it myself, but that’s because I think it’s good to preserve
precedent in general, and the country has sufficiently relied on it that it
should not be overruled.”<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><A
href="http://www.nysun.com/article/23046"><STRONG>“<EM><I><FONT
face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none">Roe v.
Wade</SPAN></FONT></I></EM> an Issue Ahead of Alito Hearing,” <EM><I><FONT
face=Verdana><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana; TEXT-DECORATION: none">New York
Sun</SPAN></FONT></I></EM> November 15,
2005</STRONG></A></SPAN></FONT><o:p></o:p></P>
<DIV class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: center" align=center><FONT
face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>
<HR align=center width="100%" SIZE=2>
</STRONG></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jeffrey
Rosen</SPAN><STRONG> — Legal Affairs Editor, <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">The New Republic</FONT></I></EM>
<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“In
short, 30 years later, it seems increasingly clear that this pro-choice magazine
was correct in 1973 when it criticized <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Roe</FONT></I></EM> on constitutional grounds. Its
overturning would be the best thing that could happen to the federal judiciary,
the pro-choice movement, and the moderate majority of the American
people.<BR>….<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><STRONG>“Thirty years after <EM><I><FONT
face="Times New Roman">Roe</FONT></I></EM>, the finest constitutional minds in
the country still have not been able to produce a constitutional justification
for striking down restrictions on early-term abortions that is substantially
more convincing than Justice Harry Blackmun’s famously artless opinion itself.
As a result, the pro-choice majority asks nominees to swear allegiance to the
decision without being able to identify an intelligible principle to support
it.”<o:p></o:p></STRONG></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P><FONT face=Verdana size=1><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 7.5pt; FONT-FAMILY: Verdana"><STRONG>“</STRONG><A
href="http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20030224&s=rosen022403"><STRONG>Worst
Choice</STRONG></A><STRONG>” <EM><I><FONT face=Verdana><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Verdana">The New Republic</SPAN></FONT></I></EM> February
24, 2003</STRONG></SPAN></FONT><STRONG> <o:p></o:p></STRONG></P></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5>_____________________________</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5>Washington Post</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV><STRONG><FONT size=5>Alito's Smoking Gun<BR></DIV></FONT></STRONG>
<P><FONT size=-1>By Harold Meyerson<BR>Wednesday, November 16, 2005;
A19<BR></FONT>
<P><NITF>
<P>Samuel Alito could not have put it more plainly. "The Constitution," he wrote
in a 1985 job application he posted to the Reagan administration's attorney
general, Ed Meese, "does not protect a right to an abortion."</P>
<P>The folks charged with getting Alito confirmed as Sandra Day O'Connor's
successor are insisting that the judge's declaration is not a smoking gun.
Alito's subsequent record on the federal appellate bench, said Republican Sen.
John Cornyn of Texas, "shows he has indeed put his personal views on abortion
aside." And in the Washington Times story that revealed the existence of the
application, an unnamed Republican official insisted, "the issue is not Judge
Alito's political views during the Reagan administration." The issue was the
hundreds of opinions Alito had authored in the years since, in "none of which is
it evident what his political philosophy is."</P>
<P>Now, maybe I'm cockeyed here, but I don't read Alito's abortion assertion as
either personal or political. A personal view would say, "I'm opposed to
abortion." A political declaration would say, "Abortion is a bad public policy."
But those aren't the sentiments that Alito voiced. What he said, if you'll
pardon the strict construction here, is that there is no constitutional right to
an abortion. Which is a viewpoint, if agreed to by five Supreme Court justices,
that can change the law, and social fabric, of the land.</P>
<P>Alito's advocates argue that he never once called for overturning <I>Roe v.
Wade</I> during his 15 years on the appellate bench. But appellate judges
interpret the law within the framework that the Supreme Court lays out. Supreme
Court justices can change that framework when they see fit -- and they do. Those
are the Supreme Court decisions that make the history books, and there are a
number of them. Deference to precedents may be a pillar of the law, but -- and
on this, conservatives and liberals agree -- it is clearly less of one for
Supreme Court justices than for appellate and trial judges.</P>
<P>Alito's champions would have us believe, however, that he will defer even to
precedents that he regards as unconstitutional -- despite the fact that the job
of a justice is precisely to determine what is and isn't constitutional. That's
asking us to believe a lot.</P>
<P>Clearly, the senators charged with questioning Alito will ask him if he still
believes what he wrote 20 years ago. In this instance, since his assertion to
Meese was so unequivocal, not answering has to be taken as a de facto yes. He
could argue, I suppose, that <I>Roe</I> is a more settled point of law now, 32
years after the decision, than it was in 1985. But do time and repeated citation
really validate a ruling that Alito viewed -- and unless he tells us otherwise,
still views -- as unconstitutional to begin with? Do Alito's constitutional
views count for nothing? Did George W. Bush appoint him simply to leave
everything as is?</P>
<P>Alito's antipathy toward <I><I>Roe</I></I> wasn't the only high point of his
'85 job application. He also noted that he disagreed with the Warren Court's
decisions "in the areas of criminal procedure, the Establishment Clause and
reapportionment." Reapportionment? By far the most notable reapportionment
decision of the Warren Court was its famous one-man, one-vote ruling, which
required state legislatures to create districts of equal population. By 1985
this decision -- unlike Roe -- had won universal acceptance. What on earth did
Alito disagree with here? The disenfranchisement of pasture and cow?</P>
<P>Alito's memo to Meese was, to be sure, a job application, and the assertions
people make when applying for jobs tend to the hyperbolic. But Sam Alito comes
off as one of nature's straight shooters, and I see no reason to take his
declarations as anything other than accurate representations of his beliefs.
Which means, unless he's reversed his thinking or unless deference to precedent
trumps his deepest beliefs on constitutionality, that Justice Samuel Alito
would, given the opportunity, abolish a woman's federal right to reproductive
choice. It's not personal for him; it's constitutional. But it's plenty personal
for the American people.</P>
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<DIV><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman"
color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic">National
News</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></DIV>
<DIV class=Section1>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>1.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Editorial says Alito job
application shows he is worthy of rejection – he is extreme, doesn’t respect
precedent, and is an ideologue (Editorial, NYT: <A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/opinion/16wed1.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/opinion/16wed1.html</A>)
<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><BR
style="mso-special-character: line-break"><![endif]></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.5in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.5in"><B
style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Of
Note</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></U></B></P>
<H2><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">White House</SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></H2>
<UL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="mso-list: l0 level1 lfo2; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Bowman (Roll Call) notes polls showing
majority don’t know who Alito is, 19% support, 12% oppose (<A
href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/51_53/bowman/11264-1.html">http://www.rollcall.com/issues/51_53/bowman/11264-1.html</A>)
</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> </SPAN></FONT><FONT
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<H2><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Senate</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></H2>
<UL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Hurt (W Times) covers Senate and Alito
reaction to 1985 job application (<A
href="http://washingtontimes.com/national/20051116-121615-8919r.htm">http://washingtontimes.com/national/20051116-121615-8919r.htm</A>)
</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> </SPAN></FONT><FONT
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<H2><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Judge Sam Alito, Jr.</SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></H2>
<UL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Greenhouse (NYT) profiles Alito’s method
of analysis through 2003 death penalty case (<A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/politics/politicsspecial1/16death.html?pagewanted=all">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/politics/politicsspecial1/16death.html?pagewanted=all</A>)
</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Bravin (WSJ) profiles Alito’s decision
making, saying he favors the scalpel over the sledgehammer and relies on
gradual change and less combative style (<A
href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113210868440198544.html?mod=todays_us_page_one">http://online.wsj.com/article/SB113210868440198544.html?mod=todays_us_page_one</A>)
</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
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<H2><I><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Issues</SPAN></FONT></I><FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: normal; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></H2>
<UL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Stolberg and Kirkpatrick (NYT),
Babington and Russakoff (W Post), Serrano and Savage (LAT), Holland (AP) cover
Alito downplaying remarks on abortion and quotas from Reagan era job
application (<A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/politics/politicsspecial1/16confirm.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/politics/politicsspecial1/16confirm.html</A>;
<A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111500085_pf.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111500085_pf.html</A>;
<A
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-alito16nov16,1,4168153.story?coll=la-headlines-nation">http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-alito16nov16,1,4168153.story?coll=la-headlines-nation</A>;
<A
href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051116/ap_on_go_su_co/alito;_ylt=AmUy9Nyl3CyPZcDfulb7_XNMEP0E;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--">http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051116/ap_on_go_su_co/alito;_ylt=AmUy9Nyl3CyPZcDfulb7_XNMEP0E;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--</A>)<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Savage (NYT) wonders why Democrats don’t
propose a privacy amendment to Constitution, comparing it to the anti-gay
marriage amendment (<A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/opinion/16savage.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/opinion/16savage.html</A>)
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style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></LI></UL>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><![if !supportEmptyParas]><![endif]> </SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=black><SPAN
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<UL style="mso-margin-top-alt: 0in" type=disc>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Meyerson (W Post) says Alito memo shows
he would overturn Roe, unless he now disagrees or believes it is trumped by
precedent (<A
href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501309.html">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/15/AR2005111501309.html</A>)</SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT>
<LI class=MsoNormal
style="mso-list: l1 level1 lfo1; tab-stops: list .5in"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Editorial (LAT) says there is room for
Alito to wiggle out of memo, but it should be starting point for honest debate
– unlike past hearings on abortion and affirmative action (<A
href="http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-alito16nov16,0,1403056.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials">http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-alito16nov16,0,1403056.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials</A>)
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=6><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 25pt; COLOR: black">1</SPAN></FONT></B><B
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<P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><U><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Editorial says Alito
job application shows he is worthy of rejection – he is extreme, doesn’t respect
precedent, and is an ideologue</SPAN></FONT></U></B><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">NYT vs
ALITO</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><I
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style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic">NYT</SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-LEFT: 0.25in; TEXT-INDENT: -0.25in"><I
style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black
size=3><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic">Ignore
The Man Behind That Memo</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
style="COLOR: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></I></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"><FONT
face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black; FONT-STYLE: italic">Editorial</SPAN></FONT><FONT
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black"><A
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/opinion/16wed1.html">http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/16/opinion/16wed1.html</A></SPAN></FONT><FONT
color=black><SPAN
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Judge Samuel Alito
Jr.'s insistence that the Constitution does not protect abortion rights is not
the only alarming aspect of a newly released memo he wrote in 1985. That
statement strongly suggests that Judge Alito is far outside the legal mainstream
and that senators should question him closely about it. They should be prepared
to reject his nomination to the Supreme Court if he cannot put to rest the
serious concerns that the memo, part of a job application, raises about his
worthiness to join the court.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
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<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">When Judge Alito applied for a job with
the Justice Department under President Ronald Reagan, he submitted a Personal
Qualifications Statement that outlined his approach to the law. That statement
raises three major concerns:</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
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style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">First, he has extreme
views on the law. Judge Alito said he was particularly proud of his work on
cases that tried to establish that "the Constitution does not protect a right to
an abortion." He did not merely oppose Roe v. Wade in the abstract - he worked
to reverse it. He also noted his "disagreement with Warren Court decisions" in
many important areas, including reapportionment. The reapportionment cases
established the one-person-one-vote doctrine, which requires that Congressional
and legislative districts include roughly equal numbers of people. They played a
key role in making American democracy truly representative, and are almost
uniformly respected by lawyers and scholars.</SPAN></FONT><FONT
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Second, Judge Alito
does not respect precedent. Judicial nominees who appear extreme often claim
that because they respect precedent, they will vote to reaffirm decisions they
disagree with. When Judge Clarence Thomas was nominated for the Supreme Court,
he told the Senate about his deep respect for precedent - and then immediately
began voting to overturn important precedents when he joined the court. The
Senate has specific reason to be skeptical about Judge Alito. Not only did he
work to overturn Roe v. Wade, but he also said he had been inspired to go to law
school by his opposition to Warren Court precedents - presumably by a desire to
see them overturned.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Third, he is an
ideologue. The White House has tried to present Judge Alito as an impartial
judge without strong political views. But he said just the opposite in the 1985
statement. "I am and always have been a conservative," he wrote. He called
himself a "life-long registered Republican" who contributed to "Republican
candidates and conservative causes" including the National Conservative
Political Action Committee, the super-PAC of the Reagan era. He strongly
suggested that he would have been active in Republican politics if the law had
not prohibited him, as a federal employee, from doing that.</SPAN></FONT><FONT
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Judge Alito is already
trying to distance himself from the memo. He cannot say it was merely a lawyer's
representation of an employer's views because it was undeniably a statement of
his personal beliefs. He cannot call it an excess of youth because he was 35
when he wrote it. According to Senator Dianne Feinstein, the California
Democrat, Judge Alito told her yesterday that when he had written it he had
merely been "an advocate seeking a job."</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">This is not very
credible because the statement is entirely consistent with his full career. On
the bench, Judge Alito has voted to uphold extreme limits on abortion and on
other important rights, like freedom from unreasonable searches and
seizures.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
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face="Times New Roman" color=black size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold; FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: black">Equally alarming is the
notion that he fudged the truth to tell a potential employer what it wanted to
hear. Senators should certainly keep this in mind when they try to decide
whether to believe how he describes his views at his confirmation
hearing.</SPAN></FONT><FONT color=black><SPAN
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