Alito Nomination

The AP reports that the U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review the controversial Texas redistricting map that Tom DeLay engineered.

Keep in mind that Samuel Alito considers that voting rights stuff as just a bunch of mumbo-jumbo.
 

The GOP must be getting nervous about the nomination of Samuel Alito.  There is no other explanation for their recent bizarre behavior.

Matt Stoller over at MyDD points out that henchmen assigned to work the nomination are now issuing threats against Senators Kennedy and Biden if they exercise their role under the Constitution by actually trying to find out if Alito has the character and moral fitness to serve on the nation's highest court.

And now, Senator Bill "Insider Trader" Frist is threatening the nuclear option to fend off a filibuster threat that has yet to be uttered by Democrats.

Senator Joe Biden has grown increasingly concerned about Judge Samuel Alito's views, according to this AP story, especially with regard to his opposition to the "one man-one vote" principle.

But Biden, D-Del., said he was most troubled by Alito's comment about reapportionment under the Supreme Court when it was led by Chief Justice Earl Warren.

The Warren Court, as it became known, ended public school segregation and established the election principle of one-man one-vote.

The Washington Times actually breaks some news for a change in this story about Samuel Alito's 1985 application to work for the Attorney General.

Here's a snip:

Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times.
    "I personally believe very strongly" in this legal position, Mr. Alito wrote on his application to become deputy assistant to Attorney General Edwin I. Meese III.

AMERICAblog reports that Alito had some interesting writings on privacy during his college days at Princeton.

Apparently, the White House is so anxious over the Alito nomination that they have gone so far as to purge the bio of Alito's son off the website of his college newspaper.

Check out this item from Max Blumenthal over at Huffington Post.

Here's the statement of Senator John Kerry on the Alito nomination:

“Every American should be deeply concerned that the far right wing which prevented Harriet Miers from even receiving a Senate hearing is celebrating Judge Alito’s nomination and urging the Senate to rubber stamp the swing vote on our rights and liberties. Has the right wing now forced a weakened President to nominate a divisive justice in the mold of Antonin Scalia? With civil rights, privacy rights, and mainstream American values hanging in the balance, the President’s sagging political position in his own party is no excuse to reopen wounds in America which a President should seek to repair.