The Alito Nomination: A Pivotal Battle...And What's Needed to ...
http://rwor.org/a/027/alito-nomination-battle.htm
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Revolutionary Worker Online - Chicago,IL,USA
Alito on the Supreme Court would be a battering ram in bringing about a
pivotal shift in the legal structure and norms that have been in place in
this country for decades. While these structures and norms have always
served to defend and extend the exploitation and oppression of capitalism,
what is being put in place on a whole host of questions--presidential
power, the rights of defendants in the legal system, prohibitions of
torture, equal protection under the law for women and minorities,
international law, and the separation of church and state--will represent a
qualitative leap for the worse for the people and their ability to resist,
to fight for a better world, and to make revolution.
To take one concentrated example: Alito has stated that his legal opinion
(not his personal opinion), leads to the conclusion that there is no legal
justification for abortion. A recently uncovered memo discloses Alito
identifying his mission as "bringing about the eventual overruling of Roe
v. Wade and, in the meantime, of mitigating its effects."
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Posting and reading from alt.politics.usa.constitution OR alt.education
You are invited to check out the following:
The Rise of the Theocratic States of America
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocracy.htm
American Theocrats - Past and Present
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/theocrats.htm
The Constitutional Principle: Separation of Church and State
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
[and to join the discussion group for the above site and/or Separation of
Church and State in general, listed below]
HRSepCnS · Hampton Roads [Virginia] SepChurch&State
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HRSepCnS/
[Its not just Hampton Roads folks who are members, there are members from
all over the U.S. and a couple from overseas as well]
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.. . . You can't understand a phrase such as "Congress shall make no law
respecting an establishment of religion" by syllogistic reasoning. Words
take their meaning from social as well as textual contexts, which is why "a
page of history is worth a volume of logic." New York Trust Co. v. Eisner,
256 U.S. 345, 349, 41 S.Ct. 506, 507, 65 L.Ed. 963 (1921) (Holmes, J.).
Sherman v. Community Consol. Dist. 21, 980 F.2d 437, 445 (7th Cir. 1992)
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLE:
SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE
http://members.tripod.com/~candst/index.html
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