He is known as "Scalito" by liberals, since his mindset tends to be similar to Justice Scalia, another justice who has been known to legislate from the bench, though the liberal members do also.
The problem with the Democrats' arguments against him is that they tend to dwell on detail issues, not important issues. A detail issue is abortion. It gets people riled up, but how many people does Roe v. Wade really affect? Even before that decision, abortions could be found in states such as New York; that decision merely said that States no longer had the right to regulate the practice. Not to mention that the ground it was decided on is shaky at best. Read the decision if you don't believe me, it is truly an obomination of the Constitution. An important issue is the interpretation of the US Constitution. This interpretation is the raison d'être of the Supreme Court. We need justices who will faithfully preserve the Constitution as it was intended to be used. It should not be used for fringe activities, such as adding Amendments to allow abortions, ban liquor and gay marriage, which is akin to using a Ferrari as a snow plow.
Apparently the "radical" decisions that Judge Alito has delivered include:
- Stating that a law mandating that husbands be notified before their wife secures an abortion
- Stating that laws regarding sex discrimination make it too easy to get a jury trial
- Christmas and Chanukah displays are OK on public property
I personally do not feel that any of these decisions by themselves constitute anything. One must look at how the decision fits within the Constitution. Liberals and Conservatives do not like this at all, but recently there has been a lot more complaining from the left. It is not the job of the Supreme Court to legislate anything, merely to decide if legislation is fair, just, and in the spirit of the Constitution.
We must look beyond the emotions of the decisions and to the facts of the cases. We must look at how the law was applied and what the reasoning was behind it. If Judge Alito's past decisions show him to be a fair-minded individual who respects the laws and principles our country was founded on, then we should support our President's nominee.
