Alito

[Alex]

It depends on what the alternatives were but if presented with the opportunity to hire Eisner to run my entertainment conglomerate I'd be heavily inclined to do so.

I don't support Alito's political views on many issues but can't think of a good reason to oppose his appointment. Heck, one of the architects of the Japanese internment during World War II and a strick law-and-order man was appointed chief justice by a Republican and immediately produced Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda, and a slew of decisions viewed as the most liberal (and activist) in the court's history.

I've said before that while I support access to abortion I don't support Roe v. Wade and think the federal and state legislatures are the appropriate venue for settling the issue so I'm not particularly bothered by the thought of Wade being overtly overturned, though I do think it unlikely that it will be.

I am concerned about overly broad interpretation of executive power but I also think that executive power has been overbroad since FDR and during time of war since the very beginning (the major concern here is that war is currently being defined in a way that makes it perpetual not periodic).