Ironic, how "small government" CONservatives support Authoritarian Alito

[Armstead]

The most ridiculous thing about the Alito nomination is how the right-wing -- who claim to be against "big guvament' -- are so eager to support authoritarian judges who would rein in th very fredom they claim to cherish.

From "The Nation":

http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060127/cm_thenation/153470


Checks Blances and the Duty for Filibuster
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"Samuel Alito has established himself, through his record as an appellate court judge and his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, as the consumate judicial activist. He seeks a place on the Supreme Court in order to advance his vision of an imperial presidency that does not obey the laws of the land or answer to the Congress. Alito is, by his own admission, intellectually and politically at odds with the intents of the founders, and with the Constitutional system of checks and balances that they established. He has gone so far as to advise past presidents on strategies for expanding executive power and, as a judge, he has erred on the side of even the most reckless abuses of executive authority.

As Jonathan Turley, the George Washington University law professor and Constitutional scholar, explained: "In my years as an academic and a litigator, I have rarely seen the equal of Alito's bias in favor of the government. To put it bluntly, when it comes to reviewing government abuse, Samuel Alito is an empty robe."

Turley put the Senate consideration of this nomination in context when he wrote that: "The Alito vote might prove to be the single most important decision on the future of our constitutional system for decades to come. While I generally defer to presidents in their choices for the court, Samuel Alito is the wrong nominee at the wrong time for this country."

[natrat]

1. renaissance in america definitely gone-now it's just bullshit

http://existentialistcowboy.blogspot.com/2006/01/who-gets-eaten.html

[Armstead]

4. Yep, we're going back to the dark ages if we';re not careful

[Wordie]

2. It's because they know Alito will assist Bush in dismantling federal

programs. He will do this on the basis of the unitary executive theory and by rolling back the protections under the Commerce clause.

[Armstead]

3. Roll back the help -- Increase the repression

[Armstead]

5. Kick -- If you know any principled, but partisan conservative/libertarians

They need to be made aware that they are underrmining the very porinciples they stand for if they allow thgis kind of thing.

If they think "liberal activist judges" are meddlesome, wait until they see with happens with a right-wing activist court.