White House Says Alito Was Assuring on Districting (wink, wink, trust us!)

[Thom Little]

By David D. Kirkpatrick
New York Times
Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2005


Moving to defend the Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. against attacks on his stance on civil rights, the White House said Tuesday that he had assured senators last week of his commitment to the principle of one person one vote.

"Judge Alito believes and has told senators that he believes 'one man one vote' is bedrock principle," Steve Schmidt, a White House spokesman, said Tuesday.

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Moving quickly to cut off such speculation, conservative allies of the White House began spreading secondhand reports Monday that Judge Alito already affirmed the one-person-one-vote doctrine last week in his meetings with senators.

Still, Senator Ken Salazar, Democrat of Colorado and a member of the so-called Gang of 14 senators who prevented a stalemate over judicial nominations earlier this year, said last week that he questioned Judge Alito directly about that issue and was not satisfied with the answer. A spokesman for Mr. Salazar, Cody Wertz, said Monday that the senator still considered Judge Alito's answers ambiguous.



http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/23/politics/politicsspecial1/23alito.html?ex=1290402000&en=3a06515a2ed5835d&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

[Sgent]

1. Of course he believes in one person one vote

the question is whether or not the equal protection clause:

1) applies to the states
2) if so, does Congress have the authority to pass the Voting Rights Act of '64?

[David__77]

2. Perhaps he needs to be asked if he considers Black people "people."

This is newspeak, clearly.