Re: The Sky is Falling

Okay Shit.

I thought Harriet Miers was bad... I guess I should have kept my mouth shut. Granted she had no judicial experience, granted she worked for a church organization that was pro-life, granted Bushie loved her like a surrogate mother... but this guy, this guy...
Shit. According to an article* on CNN:

"Legal experts consider the 55-year-old Alito so ideologically similar to Justice Antonin Scalia that he has earned the nickname 'Scalito.'"

(cue vomit)

"In 1991, in one of his more well-known decisions, he was the only dissenting voice in a 3rd Circuit ruling striking down a Pennsylvania law that required women to notify their husbands if they planned to get an abortion."

*Further reading:
CNN
The New York Times
BBC