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Alito and the abortion litmus test

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It doesn't get much clearer than this: Today, the Reverend Moon's publication, The Washington Times, reports that Samuel Alito clearly seems predisposed to overturn Roe:

Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times.

"I personally believe very strongly" in this legal position, Mr. Alito wrote on his application to become deputy assistant to Attorney General Edwin I. Meese III.

The document, which is likely to inflame liberals who oppose Judge Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court, is among many that the White House will release today from the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

And it's sure to reassure the radical right wing, whose litmus test for Supreme Court justices got Harriet Miers the hook.

"It has been an honor and source of personal satisfaction for me to serve in the office of the Solicitor General during President Reagan's administration and to help to advance legal positions in which I personally believe very strongly," he wrote.

"I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent 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."

A leading Republican involved in the nomination process insisted that this does not prove Judge Alito, if confirmed to the Supreme Court, will overturn Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 Supreme Court ruling that made abortion a constitutional right.

"No, it proves no such thing," said the Republican, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. "In fact, if you look at some of the quotes of his former law clerks, they don't believe that he'll overturn Roe v. Wade."

And if you believe that, I have a bridge in New York I'd like to sell you.

So now we know why Samuel Alito passes the right-wing litmus test of having ideological attitudes in favor of criminalizing aborted pregnancy.

The question is why the supposedly "pro-choice" Democrats continue to mumble about no litmus test.

[via Fred Barbash, Washington Post Blog]


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