of hours of testimony in the hearings for Alito. It’s humorous listening to the differences between the R’s and D’s. The R’s paint everything rosy, joyous and righteous, the D’s paint everything dark, mysterious and just plain wrong. Sucks having to hear Teddy pontificating about anyone’s ethics.
I do think he’ll be nominated and do hope that he ends up being a middle/right justice. He seems to have a gentle spirit – if it were me, I’d be inclined to tell Teddy to step out and have another bottle or two of gin before trying to match wits.
As a single issue person for the most part (abortion), I hope that the government is limited in it’s funding and endorsment of abortions, by law, by elections, by whatever. I do not think that the mission of the church is to stop abortions – it is to change hearts. Changing hearts will stop abortions. I found an excellant treatise on this subject in my electronic library by a Presbyterian pastor in New England but it is copyrighted and I’m not free to post it. He walked through an outline of why Operation Rescue should not be affiliated with Christianity and I think he made a very good case. As much as I abhor abortion, it would be far worse to live in a “religious” state, controlled by someones interpretation of the Bible, Talmud, Koran or philisophical sayings.
So, on to the business of changing hearts…….now where the heck did I leave my club????
Susan says
January 13, 2006 at 3:32 amI agree that changing hearts will stop abortions. Too bad more people don’t think this way.
Sharon says
January 13, 2006 at 12:32 pmAlito is quite the intelligent judge; however, his inability to respond to the simple question of a judge’s tenure was disappointing.
Bigjolly says
January 13, 2006 at 9:42 pmHmmm, I guess I missed that one. Can you elaborate on the tenure question?
Sharon says
January 17, 2006 at 7:18 amSorry about the delay in responding…didn’t check Bigjolly for a few days.
Alito was unable to state yes or no on the question..do you support term limits for judges. Here is a recap:
Judge Alito testified for four hours. During that time, Alito did give some mildly interesting answers. One, for example, came during questioning by Senator Kohl about whether judges should be term limited. Alito favored looking at how other nations have treated tenure on their courts and made reference to the fact that most state courts apply term limits. He even suggested that had he been a Framer he would not have opposed a long term for judges rather than life tenure. In an answer to Senator Schumer, Alito said he had no quarrel with post-New Deal interpretation of the commerce clause and acknowledged that interpretation of the clause had evolved over the nation’s history. He also admitted he felt that acts of Congress had a strong presumption of constitutionality and that information obtained through torture would be impermissible.