It's official.* It's official. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito served as a United States attorney and a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit is a conservative. Or, to be perfectly precise, he was a conservative when, in 1985, he completed an application for a promotion in the Reagan Justice Department. In that document, Alito wrote that he believed 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 Traditional values refer to those beliefs, moral codes, and mores that are passed down from generation to generation within a culture, subculture or community. Since the late 1970s in the U.S. ." Sounds good to us. Alito also wrote that he was proud of his work on cases "in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion." Sounds good, too. So what's the problem? Well, the latest issue du jour du jour adj. 1. Prepared for a given day: The soup du jour is cream of potato. 2. Most recent; current: the trend du jour. for the stop-Alito groups is his position on the doctrine of one-man-one-vote. In that 1985 application, Alito wrote that when he was in college, in the late 1960s, he disagreed with Warren Court From 1953 to 1969, Earl Warren presided as chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Under Warren's leadership, the Court actively used Judicial Review to strictly scrutinize and over-turn state and federal statutes, to apply many provisions of the Bill of Rights to the states, and to decisions in several areas of the law, including reapportionment reapportionment: see legislative apportionment. . That caused Democrats to fret that Alito would "roll back the clock" on civil rights, even though the White House assured everyone involved that Alito views one-man-one-vote as a bedrock principle. Ere long, Alito will have a chance to speak for himself. (The hearings begin in January.) Of his reasonableness, he should be able to convince anyone willing to listen. |
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