DEMS Have DIRT On SCALITO! And They WILL Use It!

[kpete]

Dems have dirt on ScAlito!!! And they will use it!
by EZ writer
Thu Jan 05, 2006 at 08:43:56 PM PDT
Alito's honesty questioned. Looks like the Democrats have got some significant ammo.
The New York Times will have this on Friday:


WASHINGTON -- Signaling their intent to put up a tough fight in next week's hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., Senate Democrats said Thursday that they will call at least two witnesses who could question his personal credibility as well several experts on civil rights and constitutional law.


One witness is John G.S. Flym, a legal scholar. In 2002, Flym served as counsel to a plaintiff suing the mutual fund company Vanguard in a case that came before Alito on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.


The other witness expected to address Alito's character is Stephen R. Dujack, a journalist who has criticized a conservative alumni group to which Alito belonged. The group, Concerned Alumni of Princeton, opposed the university's admission of women, criticized its affirmative action policies and urged the admission of more alumni children. It went out of business around 1987.


In a meeting with reporters Thursday, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., also a member of the Judiciary Committee, called Concerned Alumni of Princeton "anti-black" and "anti-women," and questioned why Alito had failed to mention his membership in response to the Senate questionnaire for his confirmation to the federal appeals court.

more at:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/5/224356/9396

[Catherine Vincent]

1. They may use it but they'll probably still vote for him.

[applegrove]

2. Ouch. If Alito fails they'll have to go to iraq to get those 23 year olds

from the Heritage Foundation to be the next SCOTUS.

Reality bites!

[depakid]

3. They can axe him if they press the corruption angle

provided that they don't back off- and don't listen to a bunch of lame excuses.

[TygrBright]

4. I'm not so sure about this tack....

...concentrating on issues of racism & sexism, Roe, etc., seems like a low-power strategy compared to ripping this shitheel to shreds on his anti-constitutional views about proportional representation and the election of Senators. The man is an unreconstructed New England Federalist of the ilk that tried to sell America out to the British before the War of 1812. He believes the franchise and self-governing power should be restricted to those well-educated enough to use it "wisely." One person, one vote... fooey, that's what's sending this country down the crapper, letting all that riffraff have proportional representation and all.

THAT's what they should be nailing his sorry ass to the wall on, not the tired old stuff about Princeton admitting too many women.

Dammit, the GOPpies declared this class war. We've tried to be nice, we've tried to have good manners, we've tried to avoid it, head it off, ignore it. It only encourages the pondscum. Time to go nuke-yoo-lar on their sadsack butts, and let the average schlub know just how sincere the GOPpies are about representing the interests of the hoi polloi. About as sincere as a farmer feeding his fatstock, that is. Just ignore that truck, little dogies....

irritatedly,
Bright

[raysr]

5. Force him to withdraw