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I believe that we should not only be looking at what we can do now to prevent his nomination to the Supreme Court, but prepare for what we can do in the future should Alito get nominated.
Here are two suggestions that come to mind, feel free to comment or add your own.
First, we really need to strive to control both the House and Senate by 2008. In the mean time we should be heavily investigating criminal wrongdoings or suspected wrong doings of Scalia. He's been walking a narrow line recently, and a thorough investigation into his personal life as well as his professional life may turn up something criminal. If we can find something that even hints at criminal wrongdoing and we control both the House and the Senate as well as having a Democratic President by 2008 we can call for impeachment hearings on Scalia. He can then be removed and replaced by a liberal Judge which should once again balance out the Supreme Court.
Second, we should immediately begin working on a "Right to Privacy" Act to add to the Constitution. In short, it'll uphold a persons right to make "private and moral decisions without the interference from the Government". This should be done to prevent a woman's right to choose from being over turned as well as making it unconstitutional to recriminalize sodomy. It would also disallow the government from interjecting their opinions and thoughts based on "moral beliefs". It should be worded in such a way as to be neutral and to appeal to a broad range of people - from civil libertarians, to far left liberals, to moderate Republicans... basically anyone who doesn't like the Government in people's private lives or personal business which would be 80% of America.
That would be my two pronged attack against the Alito nomination.
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