Alito

[Gemini Cricket]

Alito and Frist use Parks for photo-op

Wasting no time, the White House arranged for Alito to go to the Capitol after the announcement.The schedule called for Senate Majority Leader Bill First to greet him and accompany the nominee to the Capitol Rotunda to go to the coffin of the late civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks.

That's just blatantly shallow. Using a dead civil rights icon to further an agenda. That's just so wrong.

Bush said he doesn't like activist judges. I guess if it's a liberal activist judge then it's wrong, but a conservative activist judge then that's a different story.

Lawrence Lustberg, a New Jersey criminal defense lawyer who has known Alito since 1981 and tried cases before him on the Third Circuit, describes him as "an activist conservatist judge" who is tough on crime and narrowly construes prisoners' and criminals' rights. "He's very prosecutorial from the bench. He has looked to be creative in his conservatism, which is, I think, as much a Rehnquist as a Scalia trait," Lustberg says.

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Bush just threw out what he said about diversity right out the window. Was that a flip-flop? Replacing O'Connor with Scalia-Lite.

Not only that, but this candidate has his corruption problems, too:

Three years ago Alito drew conflict-of-interest accusations after he upheld a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit against the Vanguard Group. Alito had hundreds of thousands of dollars invested with the mutual fund company at the time. He denied doing anything improper but recused himself from further involvement in the case.

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Forget about Roe v Wade:

In 1991, he was the lone dissenter in a 3rd Circuit decision striking down a Pennsylvania law's requirement that women tell their husbands before having an abortion.

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Man, this is totally amazing but not shocking. I hope the Democrats filibuster this nomination. Maybe they won't need to, there's a big paper trail on this one.

Dumps Miers to jump on the conservative bandwagon (so much for staying the course with Harriet) and now catering to the right-wing nutjobs by embracing Alito.

What a circus... complete with a cowboy clown.