PLEASE HELP STOP ALITO!

[Czolgosz]

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Since Judge Sam Alito was confirmed as a judge in 1990, he has come out as an out-of-the-mainstream extremist. Since 1990, radical Alito has

(1) proved that he lied during his confirmation hearing by breaking his vow during his 1990 confirmation to disqualify from cases involving Vanguard;

(2) violated judicial ethics rules, including where he admitted in writing to Congress that he had a conflict of interest and then he subsequently ruled in favor of a company he owned nearly a million in;

(3) declared himself willing to ignore 70 years of Supreme Court precedents about the scope of congressional authority in order to try to re-write the laws regulating submachine gun sales and the Family Medical Leave Act;

(4) declared himself willing to ignore 40 years of Supreme Court precedents about reproductive privacy and freedom in order to try to install the government as the policeman of your bedroom;

(5) declared himself willing to defend corporations against the penalties for racial and gender discrimination;

(6) disclosed his politically motivated opposition to 40 years of Supreme Court precedents guaranteeing equal protection at the ballot box guaranteeing the one-man-one-vote constitutional principle; and

(7) disclosed his 1985 application to Ed Meese which proves that Alito had admittedly adopted this activist agenda at least five years before he was appointed to the court of appeals and so he can no longer plausibly deny that his personal views have not corrupted his pattern of result-oriented judicial decisions.

Please help spread the word that Alito must be stopped!

P.S. Don't believe the Republican spin trying rewrite congressional history regarding the filibuster of judicial nominees and the Supreme Court. In 1965, the Senate easily confirmed Judge Abe Fortas to the Supreme Court. Just three years later, when President Lyndon Johnson nominated Fortas to serve as Chief Justice, there was obviously no question about his qualifications because Fortas was already serving on the Supreme Court. Based only on Fortas's judicial views, however, the Senate Republicans launched a successful four-day filibuster of Fortas's nomination in September of 1968. Whenever you hear some Senator saying that there is no history of filibustering a Supreme Court nomination based on his out-of-the-mainstream judicial views, ask them to look up the front page of the Washington Post from September 26, 1968:

"A full-dress Republican-led filibuster broke out in the Senate yesterday against a motion to call up the nomination of Justice Abe Fortas for Chief Justice."

The New York Times ran as similar story that day, and many news outlets around ran the story later that week.

Alito must not be confirmed, and if necessary, his nomination must be filibustered. Please tell your Senators.

[BamaLefty]

1. I don't think it'd do much good

He's a shoe-in. But nonetheless... we can't concede. :)

[Czolgosz]

2. Alito, CAP, and why every woman and minority should be disgusted

Sam Alito was a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton ("CAP"), and trumpeted this fact with great pride on his 1985 job application.

The MSM whitewashes CAP is generally as "a conservative group." In truth, CAP was dedicated to protesting the fact that women and minorities were being admitted to Princeton. CAP was not conservative, but reactionary.

CAP fought Princeton's decision to admit women and minorities. It published a magazine, "Prospect," devoted to this goal and -- according to The Daily Princetonian -- "In 1973, CAP mailed a letter to parents of freshmen implying that their sons and daughters were living in 'cohabitation,' rather than simply coeducational dorms. In 1975, a CAP board member tried to disrupt Annual Giving by writing to alumni in the business community to consider whether their gifts were 'being used to undermine, subvert, and otherwise discredit the very businesses which are helping fund private education.'"

Stephen Dujack, former Associate Editor of the Princeton Alumni Weekly, has observed that "In 1985, Alito belonged to a group that was dedicated to pointlessly interfering with the functioning of a university because its student body had representative numbers of women and minorities, as required by law. A group which, for its entire existence, used as its only tactics dissembling and dirty tricks; the list above doesn't begin to do justice in describing the organization's destructiveness. A lot of people were hurt in the process. A great university was damaged."

"Prospect" was founded by CAP, which was co-chaired by Asa Bushnell and Shelby Cullom Davis. In "Prospect," Davis wrote "In my day, (Dean of Student Affairs) Andy Brown would have been called to task for his open love affair with minorities." Another "Prospect" article "In Defense of Elitism" lamented "People nowadays just don't seem to know their place." It's pages whined, "Everywhere one turns blacks and hispanics are demanding jobs simply because they're black and hispanic, the physically handicapped are trying to gain equal representation in professional sports, and homosexuals are demanding that government vouchsafe them the right to bear children."

CAP did not oppose affirmative action. It advocated for quotas that favored white men.

Alito did not just accidentally find himself a CAP member by youthful indiscretion. Well into his mid-30s, Alito bragged about his CAP membership in a 1985 job application with the Reagan administration. Alito identified his CAP membership -- along with the fact that the "greatest influence" on his philosophy also included the National Review of the early 1960s, which was equally opposed to civil rights -- as qualifications for a high-level government position.

In his mid-30s, Alito chose to brag about, not apologize for, his membership in CAP.

Recently, in the questionnaire Alito submitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee, he wrote this about CAP: "Concerned Alumni of Princeton . . . was a group of Princeton alumni. A document I recently reviewed reflects that I was a member of the group in the 1980s. Apart from that document, I have no recollection of being a member, of attending meetings, or otherwise participating in the activities of the group. The group has no current officers from whom more information may be obtained."

In 1985, Alito's CAP membership was one of his distinguishing qualifications for the government post he applied for, and now 20 years later he has no recollection of that membership?

Alito cannot be trusted and must be filibustered!

[Czolgosz]

3. Alito and the use of a broomstick to anally violate a "retarded" man

Why is the word about Alito's extremism not reaching a broader audience? Is it too academic? Here is an example that less academic types may appreciate:

In the strange case of Kenneth Pirolli v. World Flavors, Inc., the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission intervened on behalf of Pirolli, a retarded man who complained of his workplace and presented "evidence that another one of Pirolli's co-workers, Harley Strauss, 'attempted to push a broom pole into (Pirolli's) behind as other staff watched." <http://www.eeoc.gov/briefs/pirolli.txt>.

What was Alito's reaction? "Pirolli's brief never asserts that his work environment was one that a reasonable, non-retarded person would find hostile or abusive." <http://www.supremecourtwatch.org/Pirolli2.pdf>.

PLEASE HELP GET THE WORD OUT.

ALITO IS AN EXTREMIST WHO MUST BE STOPPED.