VERY damning info on Alito - Hints of racism

[RadiDem]

"In one case that came before Alito, an African American had been convicted of felony murder and sentenced to death by an all-white jury from which black jurors had been impermissibly struck. Alito cast the deciding vote and wrote the majority opinion in a 2-1 ruling rejecting the defendant’s claims. The full Third Circuit reversed Alito’s ruling, and the majority specifically criticized him for having compared statistical evidence about the prosecution’s exclusion of blacks from juries in capital cases to an explanation of why a disproportionate number of recent U.S. Presidents have been left-handed. According to the majority, “o suggest any comparability to the striking of jurors based on their race is to minimize the history of discrimination against prospective black jurors and black defendants.”

http://www.savethecourt.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=mwK0JbNTJrF&b=865791&ct=1552291

[Democrats_win]

1. Should judges be using statistics? If this is true, he's FUBAR!!!

[Nikki Stone 1]

2. Interesting.

;;;

[LaPera]

3. Wow...Surprise, surprise, a republican who's a racist-What did you expect?

The real story would be a republican who's NOT a racist...But we all know, that could only be fiction!!!!

[Metta]

4. Let's see if anyone makes anything out of this. Thanks.

I hope so.

[peacebaby3]

5. Wow! Apparently he doesn't believe in Batson.

I haven't read the case, but it sounds like a Batson claim which are sometimes difficult to get relief on. It depends on if the prosecution had legitimate reasons for striking African American jurors. The whole "left-handed" president thing sounds crazy.