It’s time for another Dvorak Uncensored poll. After two days of hearings, what do you think? Should Judge Samuel Alito be confirmed to the Supreme Court?
What’s up with the Dems and their softball questioning? Are they planning on lowering the boom later? Is there a boom to lower? Has he allayed fears regarding knocking down Roe? Executive supremacy? Other issues? Did he dodge a bullet on Vanguard? Is there a bullet? Is the boringness, softball questioning and so on of the hearings simply because the Senators aren’t legal scholars and professional debators and aren’t able to keep up with someone who is?
Inquiring minds want to know what you think.
>He goes with big government (and big business) almost every time.
His record as a judge doesn’t show that.
Confirm. Alito is no “Radical right winger” as the Kennedys and Schumers of the world would have it. It’s a shame that he has to waste his time answering questions from these buffoons that had their minds made up before the hearings even opened. And imagine the hypocrisy of murderer Ted Kennedy passing judgement on anybody. Also, any senator that would make Roe their sole criteria when making a decision on Alito needs to realize that there are REAL issues facing this country that are FAR more important than Roe. On a list of the top 150 issues facing America, abortion rights is number 151. I personally believe that abortion is not wrong in most cases but I also believe that it is an issue best left to the states. Views in Massachusetts obviously differ from those in Utah. Let local feelings deide the issue and don’t waste the time of the Supreme Court.
Yes, but what is Alito’s position on the war on Christmas?
Deny.
And then abolish these confirmation hearings. They’re pointless rituals that reveal nothing.
Have the Senate spend a day debating the nominee, then vote.
He is in like flint. I hope the next demo nom is treated as badly. The libs know no bounds. There is an ex-ACLUer on the court FCS! In today’s envir that would never happen. An ACLUer!!!! DG
Alito is the nominee of the duly elected (albeit consevative) president and has been deemed highly qualified by even the notoriously liberal American Bar Association. Absent some very unlikely damaging revealation, it appears the votes are there to confirm him and eve to overide a fillibuster if needed. The contensciousness in the hearings is window dresing. Alito’s carefully evasive answers to some questions (eg one as to whether he agrees that a right of privacy exists under the constitution) and the lack of immediate, aggressive follow up convinces me that some of the senators do lack the legal sophistication to immediaely understand the limits of what he is saing and not saying.
Confirm him! He is obviously qualified.
The Supreme Court should apply existing law to cases before them, not find clever ways to make new laws to fit their personal agendas.
Passing laws is the job of Congress. If we the people don’t like what laws have been passed we can vote in a new Congress and Senate every two years to pass better laws.
This is why it is so critical to appoint judges that will apply existing law, (a.k.a. strict constitutionalists), so we the people, control the government, not the other way around.
Who wants to be subjected to the whims of a hand full of judges that may have been appointed decades ago, I certainly don’t.
Deny confirmation.
He sides with big organization more then the individual.
He believes that the president can have supreme powers in a time of war. Even when the war is against nation less enemy. Not that this stopped us from going to war nation that had nothing to do with terrorism.
He’s lied about not recalling joining bigoted organization. Even if he was upset about the ROTC being kicked off campus its was because the ROTC was his ticket out of the draft.
I think he’s a lying sexist bigot (which may be redudant, but deservedly so). What’s odd is that before the hearings, he was not supportive to congresspeople who wanted to spend time with him. Nina Tottenberg on NPR says people refer to him as “nerdy.” I think he’s just a socially awkward smartypants not in touch with the world. The fact that he worked under Reagan is reason enough to show that he is too biased to become a Supreme Court justice. Too bad the dems won’t fight for the Truth.
Confirm
I change my vote after I thought about it. I’ve interviewed employees and if I detect ANY lies or evasiveness, they are just automatically disqualified.
If I have that standard for a secretary’s assistant, shouldn’t I have the same standard for a Supreme Court justice?
When I heard that Alito was a member of CAP for over a decade but that he couldn’t remember it… that is just too hard to believe.
If he was interviewing to be the mail room guy, I wouldn’t hire him. Shouldn’t our standards for JUSTICE be much much higher?
Change that vote from a yes to a no.