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Politics > Politics-USA |
| User: |
"GW Chimpzilla" |
| Date: |
11 Jan 2006 07:06:54 PM |
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Borkalito! |
Senator Box Turtle Cornyn is waxing on and on about Democratic desperation. So
what about the Republican desperation behind the disappearing Republican
witness, Cathy Fleming?
From an e-mailed PFAW press release:
Earlier today Senator Sam Brownback submitted into the record a letter from
Cathy Fleming as evidence that Alito is not biased against individual rights in
favor of business and government. Fleming, a former colleague of Samuel Alito,
was scheduled to testify on his behalf tomorrow.
Brownback may not have known that Fleming, who is the president-elect of the
National Association of Women Lawyers (NAWL) and served under Alito when he was
a New Jersey U.S. Attorney, was pulled from the witness list this week after
the NAWL released its rating of Alito: "not qualified."
The NAWL evaluated Alito's "writings, including his judicial record," and found
that he "has shown a disinclination to protect or advance women's rights."
Furthermore, the organization found that Alito's "jurisprudence in the area of
women's rights has not been restrained" and that "he has too often engaged in
strained legal reasoning to effect a narrowing of women's rights beyond the
intent of statutes and precedent."
"Fleming's absence speaks volumes," said Ralph G. Neas, president of People For
the American Way. "Her organization's evaluation gets to the very heart of
concerns over Alito. Yanking her from the schedule is just one more attempt to
sweep inconvenient facts about Alito under the rug."
BTW, how much do you think it will take to get Cornyn to start saying
"BorkAlito" now that we've got him saying "ScAlito"?
http://feeds.dailykos.com/dailykos/index?m=2281
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