01/12/2006

Day 3: Senate Bullies Disgrace Themselves with Attack-dog Assault on Judge Alito and Family -- Day 4: Tails Between Legs
Supreme Court Hearing Update from the Christian Coalition

 WASHINGTON, Jan. 12 /Christian Newswire/ -- The unjustified attacks by left-wing Senate bullies at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing for President George W. Bush's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Samuel A. Alito on Wednesday -- which caused his wife to leave the hearing room in tears -- were clearly out of bounds and devoid of any decency whatsoever. These attacks by left-wing Senators are a continuation of what these attack dogs and their predecessors began during the Robert Bork hearings in the mid- 1980's, during the Clarence Thomas hearings in the early 1990's and continuing during the hearings of President Bush's Circuit Court of Appeals nominees such as Judge Janice Rogers Brown, a black American success story. Indeed, the unjustified attacks on these highly qualified candidates caused one of America's most successful Hispanic Americans, Miguel Estrada, to withdraw his name from the brutal confirmation process. After failing to extort a promise from Judge Alito that he would not overturn the abominable 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, the Senate political hacks doing the bidding of the extreme left- wing interest groups, decided their only remaining course was to smear Judge Alito and that is what they did in spades all day Wednesday.

On the subject of abortion, which seemed to be the only subject discussed during the first 3 days of hearings, Kansas Senator Sam Brownback on Wednesday morning spoke about the vacuous term, "super duper precedents" used by a Senate Judiciary Committee member in defense of Roe v. Wade. Senator Brownback stated in his questioning of Judge Alito: "Roe v. Wade: you have had every question on that. But I want to point out its difficulty. My colleagues on the other side look at this as completely settled law, but let's see what the legal experts say about how settled it is. Lawrence Tribe, who will be here to testify, I believe probably against you, in a little bit. Let's see what he says, professor of law at Harvard. Quote, 'One of the most curious things about Roe is that behind its own verbal smokescreen, the substantive judgment on which it rests is nowhere to be found. Settled law? Super-duper precedents? Lawrence Tribe asked some questions about it."

Senator Brownback went on to say that even Clinton- appointed Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a former ACLU executive, who was confirmed by a Republican Senate with 96 votes, thought that Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided. Senator Brownback quoted Justice Ginsburg: "Roe, I believe, would have been more acceptable as a judicial decision if it had not gone beyond a ruling on the extreme statute before the court. Heavy-handed judicial intervention was difficult to justify and appears to have provoked, not resolved, conflict." To Judge Alito the senator said, "Provoked, not resolved, conflict one of your potential colleagues says."

And Judge Alito replied, "First of all, Senator, I think the Constitution means something. And I don't think it means whatever I might want it to mean or whatever any other member of the judiciary might want it to mean. It has its own meaning. And it is the job of a judge, the job of a Supreme Court justice, to interpret the Constitution, not distort the Constitution, not add to the Constitution or subtract from the Constitution." Finally, the long-suffering American people are getting the kind of Supreme Court Justices they so deserve after decades of arrogant and unconstitutional legislating from the bench with virtually no intervention, until recently, from the people's representatives, the United States Congress. Indeed, that is the major reason President Bush was elected in 2000 and reelected in 2004.

After three days of unrelenting bludgeoning of Judge Alito by the Senate Judiciary Committee's six attack dogs, there is the beginning of a backlash amongst the American people. They know unfair when they see it. The left-wing Democrats have gone too far this time and their moderate members know it. It would behoove each of them to vote -- with a probable unanimous bloc of Senate Republicans -- to confirm this humble and highly qualified American success story, Judge Samuel A. Alito. Even the left- wing Senators on the committee are acting like dogs with their tails between their legs on Day 4.

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