When it comes to matters of life and death, it is my firm belief a person should err on the side of caution. A life taken cannot be replaced if it is later found to be a mistake. Of course, you can say the same thing about words uttered in anger, but since I struggle with that myself I will not comment on it but say yeah, it is always a good idea to say whatever is on your mind...
However, I am happy to see Alito demonstrating exactly what he said he would...an independant mindset where he looks at the merit of an individual case and goes the way he believes is right, not the way a particular ideology might say is right. Now if we could only get the other 8 justices doing that consistently, we would finally have a decent Supreme Court.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/02/02/execution.families.ap/
4 years ago
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I don't understand. He has no respect for the limits of presidential power, and I am really mad he is on the court. How is he being independent? He told the Senate that the only reason he wrote that Roe v. Wade should be illegal was because he wanted a job at the Reagan White House.
How is that being independent?
I would like to hear Alito's logic for granting a stay. Is he expecting the guy to go, "Oh wait, I was high on crack and kidnapped and killed a different girl. She was black so I shouldn't be executed." The guy admitted he told the court that he did kidnap and kill the girl. How is justice being served that he is not dead yet? And what idiocie to argue that lethal injection is cruel and unusual. Would he rather be hanged? Or perhaps he would like to be beaten to death? Maybe he would like to starve to death since the media has decided that's such a dignified and painless way to go(per the recent case of the lady supposedly in a "persistent vegitative stat.").
As for Alito, I believe he told the Reagan White House that abortion should be illegal while working as legal council for the administration. Which was no less than 18 years ago. He was working as a lawyer, not a judge at the time. He was not suppose to be independant at the time.
AS A JUDGE Alito has proven himself to be bound only by what the law is. Not by what he wishes it was. THAT is being independant. Roe V. Wade did not make any laws, because the court cannot make laws. Roe V. Wade "set precedent." Which is a concept foreign to the intent of the founders of our country. That is why we have a legislative branch of government, and a seperate, judicial branch.
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