Alito

Originally Posted by wolf

Of the 7 examples (out of how many hundreds of cases he's heard?) you state there are a few where I would have potentially been on the dissenting side, but I can't say that with authority without reading the actual decisions.

I don't see how #7 is a First Amendment issue at all ... freedom of the press does not include a guarantee of freedom of access TO the press. I checked.

Minor point: Actually, the ACLU is giving these examples. I just snipped 'em up from the 72 page analysis that I gave the link to above.

Where did you see a discussion of the difference between freedom of the press versus free access to the press? That sounds like Orwellian double-speak to me: "You may write anything you want but you can't show what you've written to anybody else." How is that freedom of the press?

What if some of these prisoners had been wrongfully prosecuted by a corrupt DA or judge? The DA or judge is later on indicted and the case is duely reported in the local paper, Wouldn't it be important for the prisoners to know about this, so that they could request that their own cases be reviewed in light of this development? That's just one hypothetical of many that I could come up with.

Bottom line, I'm with Onyx. Who cares about any of the rest of this stuff, though? The man admitted to lying about his stance on certain issues in order to "get the job." This is completely unacceptable. I'd grant him probation and a chance to do the right thing this time around, but I certainly wouldn't grant someone so lacking in integrity a place on the Supreme Court Bench.

What? Have we all gone nuts? Are we so jaded that now politicians can openly admit that they are liars and all we do is thank them for their "honesty"?