FW: Alito Failed the Test, Senators Say

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Subject: Alito Failed the Test, Senators
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color=#000000 size=1>This MLK Day, educate
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size=1>The Christian Coalition crowed
that  "There is no doubt [Alito] considers
that Roe v. Wade was a wrongly decided
issue."

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face="Verdana, Helvetica" size=2>Dear  face="Verdana, Helvetica" size=2>Kathryn size=2> face="Verdana, Helvetica">,

face="Verdana, Helvetica" color=#000000 size=2>I spent the
past week sitting in the hearing room listening to Samuel
Alito evade and stonewall. I can tell you that media
reports declaring Alito as good as confirmed are
underestimating the effect of his disappointing
testimony.


Here's
what Senator Leahy, leader of the Judiciary Committee
Democrats, had to say yesterday evening: Judge Alito
"failed the test whether he would serve to protect Americans'
fundamental rights and liberties."


As
Senator Durbin described, Alito has routinely allowed "the
'crushing hand of fate' to always come down" on ordinary
Americans needing protection from the courts, and in favor of
the government, law enforcement, and corporations. A vote to
confirm Alito to the Supreme Court could undo the life's work
of senators and countless Americans who have spent
their careers fighting for working people, the dispossessed,
and the victimized.


size=2>Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid sent clear
signals that Alito could face a stiff fight from Senate
Democrats
 in a press release Thursday evening:
"Judge Alito's responses did little to address my serious
concerns about his 15-year judicial record