I did not know how to headline this post. There is a lot there on Alito. GWB was just one big screw up and the biggest until Trump came along proudly waving the republican label.
I like to look at people’s history. I like to see what they did before becoming powerful or famous. I like to read their story and Alito will leave a legacy none of us would want with this draft regarding Roe. His opinions were anything but mainstream all along.
I think one of the worst opinions of which there are many is this opinion which clearly describes his opinion of women and little girls
Judge Samuel Alito wrote a dissenting opinion saying that police officers did not violate the Constitution when they strip-searched the mother and her ten-year-old daughter. Alito stated in section I of his dissent that the affidavit accompanying the warrant "...seeks permission to search all occupants of the residence..." and argues, again in section I, that "The warrant indisputably incorporated the affidavit..."
Judge Michael Chertoff’s majority opinion asserted that Alito’s position would effectively nullify the Fourth Amendment’s warrant requirement and “transform the judicial officer into little more than the cliché rubber stamp.”
Media attention on the case and Alito's opinion grew when he was nominated by President George W. Bush to the Supreme Court in 2005. Opponents pointed to his opinion to support claims that Alito would try to overturn Fourth Amendment precedents if confirmed to the Court.
They saw this at confirmation and confirmed him anyway including democrats that voted for his confirmation.
At Princeton, Alito chaired a student conference in 1971 called "The Boundaries of Privacy in American Society" which, among other things, supported curbs on domestic intelligence gathering and anticipated the need for a statute and a court to oversee national security surveillance.[12] The conference report itself also called for the decriminalization of sodomy, and urged for an end to discrimination against gays in hiring by employers. "Though Alito's name is attached to the chair's report, it remains unclear to what extent the report represented his personal opinions. Alumni, who served as 'commissioners' for the junior conference Alito chaired, offered conflicting information on how best to interpret the report."[13] Alito also led the American Whig-Cliosophic Society's Debate Panel during his time at Princeton.[14] He avoided Princeton's eating clubs, joining Stevenson Hall instead.[15]
This was found in the contents of the above link of the American Whig Society.
Originally two separate organizations, the American Whig Society and the Cliosophic Society were the primary student organizations at Princeton until the end of the 19th century. They "functioned in many ways as separate colleges within the College of New Jersey," creating their own schedule of classes and offering diplomas to graduates." Clio's members were usually northerners, while Whig's typically came from the southern states.[2]
In the decades before the Civil War, the societies frequently debated the subject of slavery. Despite their regional differences, both societies voted regularly in support of slavery's continuation and in opposition to emancipation. The subject united the two societies, which otherwise often disagreed
Here is a lot of hypocrisy. He does not to this day care about a woman’s privacy, or their medical privacy. He sure cared enough about privacy to chair a privacy group at Princeton. This group called for decriminalizing gays in the workplace hiring but Alito offered conflicting information on how to handle the report.
While a sophomore at Princeton, Alito received a low lottery number, 32, in the Selective Service drawing on December 1, 1969.[16] In 1970, he became a member of the school's Army ROTC program, attending a six-week basic training camp that year at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Alito was a member of the Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which was formed in October 1972 at least in part to oppose Princeton's decisions regarding admitting women. Apart from Alito's written 1985 statement of membership in CAP on a job application, which he says was truthful, there is no other documentation of Alito's involvement with or contributions to the group. Alito has cited the banning and subsequent treatment of ROTC by the university as his reason for belonging to CAP.
I don’t see any record of serving while a war was raging Vietnam. I don’t even see much involvement in the ROTC. ( Much like GWB and the National Guard stint IMO).
This….I found quite interesting….First, do legislators just take these people at their word or do they actually look at their history?
There is a Trump involvment. He clerked for Trump’s sister.
Third Circuit Judges Leonard I. Garth, for whom Alito clerked, and Maryanne Trump Barry, under whom Alito worked as an assistant U.S. Attorney, recommended Alito's judicial nomination to President George H. W. Bush.[21] On February 20, 1990, Bush nominated Alito to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, to a seat vacated by John Joseph Gibbons. The American Bar Association rated Alito "Well Qualified" at the time of his nomination. He was confirmed by unanimous consent in the Senate on April 27, 1990,[37][38] and received his commission three days later. As a Third Circuit judge, his chambers were in Newark, New Jersey.[18]
Notable opinions
Abortion
- On a Third Circuit panel, the majority in Planned Parenthood v. Casey overturned one part of a law regulating abortion, the provision mandating that married women first inform their husbands if they sought an abortion. Alito, the third judge on the panel, disagreed, arguing that he would have upheld the spousal notification requirement along with the rest of the law.
Well yeah...the little woman needs to tell hubby if he wants her to throw up for 7 or 8 months or can she please decide this one on her own. Nope..Alito thinks not.
Wow just Wow
- A majority opinion in Robinson v. City of Pittsburgh, 120 F.3d 1286 (3rd Cir. 1997), rejecting a female police officer's Equal Protection-based sexual harassment and retaliation claims against the city and certain police officials and rejecting her Title VII-based retaliation claim against the city, but allowing her Title VII-based sexual harassment claim against the city.
- A dissenting opinion in United States v. Rybar, 103 F.3d 273 (3d Cir. 1996), arguing that a U.S. law banning private citizens from owning submachine guns was similar to one struck down by the Supreme Court in United States v. Lopez and thus outside the authority of Congress under the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution.
- A majority opinion in Chittister v. Department of Community & Economic Development, 226 F.3d 223 (3d Cir. 2000). This case concerned an employee's claim of wrongful termination under the Family and Medical Leave Act against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. States are free to maintain sovereign immunity under the U.S. Constitution. Since Pennsylvania had maintained its immunity to such suits, Alito affirmed the lower court's dismissal of the employee's clai
This disturbed me and showed how he really felt about females and children .
- A dissenting opinion in Doe v. Groody, arguing that qualified immunity should have protected police officers from a finding of having violated constitutional rights when they strip-searched a mother and her ten-year-old daughter while carrying out a search warrant that authorized the search of a residence.
STRIP SEARCHING A 10 YEAR OLD? REALLY ?
I had to stop reading and was so angry over this so called protector of the constitution’s opinons that I will just leave the source of the info right here. I cannot believe he was even confirmed. Then Again, we have Barrett and Kavenaugh. I can’t believe that either. We won’t even mention Ginny Thomas’s husband.