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January 9, 2006
Hope for Alito hearings
For those of you who are as freaked out as I am about the hearings (starting today!), here’s a little ray of hope I call Feinstein. Check out some of these excerpts from an interview the California senator gave Brit Hume on Fox News yesterday.
On the possibility of voting for Alito.
"Well, first of all, it depends on the hearing...His position on a woman’s right to choose or abortion I think is a seminal issue in all of this...Well, he has expressed his views. My question is are his views, let’s say, on abortion the same as they were in 1985 when he wrote in an application, the Constitution does not protect a woman’s rights in this area. Now, if that’s true and he still holds to that, this will make him a very difficult nominee for many of us."
On her concerns about Alito and Roe.
"Well, obviously, I come from a state that is 71 percent supportive of Roe. The American people, according to the latest ABC poll -- 60 percent supportive of Roe. This is a pivotal question. And he’s in a pivotal spot because of Sandra Day O’Connor’s particular position on the court, where she was dispositive in so many 5-4 votes.
...Roe could have been overturned 38 times. Precedent has been established. Women all over America have come to depend on it. An overwhelming majority of people support it."
Just plain sticking it to them.
"...I’m old enough to know what it was like back when abortion was illegal. I know what it’s like to see young women commit suicide. I know what it’s like to see them go to Tijuana. And I don’t want to go back to those days."
Admit it, you love her.
Posted by Jessica at January 9, 2006 9:50 AM
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