by Guest Blogger, MzNicky
Confirmation hearings for Samuel Alito, Bush’s latest nominee for the Supreme Court, will begin next Monday, when our elected representatives are scheduled to straggle back into their DC offices and once again set about the People's Business.
To the Judiciary Committee’s already-full plate of questions for the would-be Supreme has been added Alito’s attitude toward the suddenly-relevant issue of unapproved wiretapping, a case for which he wrote a sympathetic memo in 1984 that favored John Mitchell, Nixon’s disgraced former Attorney General.
Look for Bushies and their media apologists to split hairs and throw red herrings, dismissing Alito’s bolstering of overweening executive privilege as issuing from a civil monetary suit and thus worthy of dismissal.
If Alito’s known determination to, among other things, infantilize and marginalize women isn’t bad enough, consider this: It’s not without the realm of possibility that, should he be confirmed, he’ll be on the Supreme Court when some very similar cases rebounding from the illegal activities of the current Justice Department wend their way up the judicial food chain and land on his plate.
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