Litmus test

Was there ever any real doubt?

You knew where Samuel Alito stood on abortion without ever having to ask, didn't you? But the White House, GOP insiders and conservative wingnuts have sworn all along there is no litmus test for Supreme Court nominees.

That kind of thing, they say, is the province of those commie Libs.

Documents Reveal Alito's Abortion View - Yahoo! News

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito wrote in 1985 that he was proud of his Reagan-era work helping the government argue that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion," documents showed Monday.

Alito, who was applying in 1985 to become deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration, boasted in a document that he helped "to advance legal positions in which I personally believe very strongly."

"I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government argued that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion," he said.

The document was included in more than 100 pages of material about Alito released by theRonald Reagan Presidential Library and the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library on Monday.

If that doesn't scare you yet, consider this from the same article:

In the document, Alito also declared himself a "lifelong registered" Republican and a Federalist Society member, and said he had donated money to the National Republican Congressional Committee, the National Conservative Political Action Committee and several GOP candidates.

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"I am and always have been a conservative and an adherent to the same philosophical views that I believe are central to this administration," Alito said.

Alito wrote that he believed "very strongly in limited government, federalism, free enterprise, the supremacy of the elected branches of government, the need for a strong defense and effective law enforcement and the legitimacy of a government role in protecting traditional values."

In the document, Alito said he drew inspiration from the "writings of William F. Buckley, Jr., The National Review and Barry Goldwater's 1964 campaign."

I feel much better now. It's now obvious that Alito will be a fair, impartial juror, judging every case on its merits, not on its politics.

Sigh,

And so it goes.