Greenfield ?s Alito: If Branding or Flogging Was Widely Accepted

[kpete]

Greenfield: Real questions for Alito
By Jeff Greenfield
CNN Senior Political Analyst


The first kind asks for answers that offer a sense of a nominee's thinking without committing that nominee to any future rulings. For instance:


Name two or three justices from the past whom you do not admire. Why not?


The Ninth Amendment says that the enumeration of certain rights should not be held to disparage other rights... ." What does this mean?


Justice Scalia says that the court was wrong 80 years ago, when it began to apply the Bill of Rights to the states. Do you agree?


If a punishment -- say, branding or flogging -- was widely accepted at the time the Bill of Rights was written, could it be considered "cruel and unusual" today?

The second type of questions would give us a much broader sense of how a nominee thinks. For instance:


Favorite Beatle? (Paul means a right-brain view of things, John, a left-brain view. Ringo means outside the mainstream.)


Do you support the designated-hitter rule? (Yes means a pro-labor, pro-federalist outlook -- different rules for different leagues.)


Beer or wine? (populist vs. elitist)


Marital exception -- Halle Berry or Diane Lane? (Other answers acceptable, of course.)



http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/10/greenfield.alito/index.html

[Gato Moteado]

1. what about george?

Favorite Beatle? (Paul means a right-brain view of things, John, a left-brain view. Ringo means outside the mainstream.)


what about george??????

[Toots]

2. You stole my question

I guess that means no brain at all. :shrug:

[phillinweird247]

3. George is my favorite beatle

What does it mean? What Does it mean?!
I gotta know.

[orwell]

4. I Can Answer All...

...but the last one. :evilgrin: