Is That Legal?

let the borking begin.

Eric --

You must have missed the WH's very cogent explanation about this non-issue.

Alito wrote those remarks while with the SG in 1985 when applying for a DAAG post. But he didn't get the job, see. He got the job 2 years later.

Moreover, these comments were made six years before he became a federal judge. And in the past 15 years, his record reflects modesty, a deep respect for precedent, and judicial restraint.

So don't you see, Eric, he didn't get the job at the time he applied and he later became an appellate judge who followed Supreme Court case-law.

That means the statements in his 1985 application became inoperative. I-N-O-P-E-R-A-T-I-V-E.

Yeah, yeah, that's the ticket . . . yeah.

When Judge Alito finds himself pregnant, I will take his views on abortion seriously. Until that miracle occurs, I can only say: yes, abortion is the killing of human life which I consider sacred; I would personally only consider abortion if my life were greatly endangered by the pregnancy or the fetus was grossly deformed with no hope of a meaningful existence; and more to the point, I would never presume to dictate to another woman what her personal decision on abortion should be, and that decision is none of Judge Alito's business.

Anne Russell

No doubt Ms Russell will agree that we need not respect her views on lynching until such time as she is black.

Actually, Ms. Randall surely has coherent thoughts about lynching, regardless of her race, unless we are to assume that only Blacks are or were ever lynched. Is Stuart so sure of his implied analogy?

I worry more about his disagreement with reapportionment.

Does he believe in one person, one vote, or not?

TK

It's even worse than that, Wendell. To be analogous, anti-lynching laws would have to deny an important right to blacks alone. It's true, as you noted, that the opportunity to be mutilated and killed by angry mobs was not unique to blacks, but more importantly, it's not a "right" that anyone would want in the first place.