BREAKING: Alito called for overturning Roe in 1985 document

[madinmaryland]

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/23/alito.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote in a June 1985 memo that the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion should be overturned.

In a recommendation to the solicitor general on filing a friend-of-court brief, Alito said that the government "should make clear that we disagree with Roe v. Wade and would welcome the opportunity to brief the issue of whether, and if so to what extent, that decision should be overruled."

The June 3, 1985 document was one of 45 released by the National Archives on Friday. A total of 744 pages were made public.

Abortion has become a wedge issue in connection with Alito's confirmation to take the Supreme Court seat held by Associated Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who is retiring. The federal appellate court judge has been seeking to assure senators that he would put his private views aside when it came time to rule on the issue as a justice. O'Connor has been a supporter of the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling affirming a woman's constitutional right to an abortion.


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That is the real goal here. To get rid of Row v. Wade.

[ananda]

1. The press is playing this down..

.. saying, what else is new... it doesn't change the debate, just amplifies it.

It does for me. It's in writing.

Alito absolutely must NOT be confirmed.

Filibuster or shut down the Senate...Dems, do your job!

Sue

[madinmaryland]

4. After this revelation, they've got to filibuster.

If they don't were in real big trouble. Especially with this quote:

Charles Fried, a Reagan administration solicitor-general, two decades ago noted the implications of the memo in his introduction, "I need hardly say how sensitive this material is, and ask that it have no wider circulation."

FILIBUSTER or SHUT THE SENATE DOWN.

[still_one]

5. the press has played everything down

they are PART of the administration

the outing of the CIA agent, the war in Iraq, the spying on Americans

every attempt has been made by the MSM to legitimize this administration

as far as the dems doing their job, I sincerely doubt it. If all the democrats vote against alitos confirmation we have the filibuster, but I doubt nelson will, and the repukes will stand in line

[still_one]

2. and no one should be surprised about this

bush didn't try to hid it in 2000 and 2004

for all those people who didn't bother to go to the polls to vote because they thought it didn't matter who was president, you have helped pave the way for a significant amount of pain in our country

[napi21]

3. This was in one of the AM papers. Brian Lamb read it this AM

on the WJ. His guests were executives from CBS, USA Today and I forget the others. Brian read a clip from that article and asked his guests how this info will affect Alito's hearings.

All agreed it would make them much more tense.

[xchrom]

6. i wish that the senators had some inkling of tense things are out here.

[npincus]

7. F*ck this nomination- Dems vote him DOWN

Now we know all we need to know.