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| Alito's College Writing Backed 'Gay Rights' |
| Thursday, November 03, 2005 |
While attending Princeton University, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito chaired a student task force that recommended decriminalizing sodomy, accused the CIA and FBI of invading citizens� privacy and said discrimination against gays in hiring should be forbidden.
A report issued by the 17-student task force in 1971, uncovered by the Boston Globe, resulted from an assignment to study the "boundaries of privacy in American society.�
And it provided "a glimpse of a more liberal Alito than the jurist is now perceived,� according to the Globe.
In a foreword to the report, Alito wrote: "We sense a great threat to privacy in modern America. We all believe that privacy is too often sacrificed to other values; we all believe that the threat to privacy is steadily and rapidly mounting; we all believe that action must be taken on many fronts now to preserve privacy.�
The report criticized government surveillance of what it called "mild dissenters on the war in Vietnam.� |
posted by Jay Are @ 2:38:00 PM   |
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Sounds like a plan to me !
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The strategy, if you want to call it that by those opposing Alito, is weak. It's so weak I call it "The CAP Strategy Against Alito is a Byrd CAP Strategy"
On the issue that they attack, Alito seems very progressive based on his stewardship of the "Boundaries of Privacy in American Society" task force. Things must be looking mighty bad in the anti-Alito camp for this to be their strategy. It looks for all I can tell to be an effort to Bork him from within the republican party like Meirs. That's not going to happen, and it is telling of just how weak the argument against Alito is from those who oppose and are organized against his nomination..............................
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Sounds like a plan to me !