Published November 20, 2005, on AmericanDaily.com
Even before President Bush nominated Judge Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court, liberals were pounding the Appellate Court judge as an individual who would bring an unacceptably biased view of the judiciary to the nation’s top court. One need not look far for evidence. Shortly after President Bush announced his new pick, the president of People for the American Way, Ralph Neas, remarked that Judge Alito “has a record of ideological activism” in opposition to a number of pet liberal causes. Not to be outdone by any of its sister liberal groups, the National Organization for Women chimed in with similar rhetoric, calling Judge Alito a “judicial extremist.”
The nagging doesn’t stop with Judge Alito, either. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi recently said that a move by Republicans in Congress to pass legislation splitting the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals into two separate circuits constituted an assault on “an independent judiciary.” Read the rest of this entry »