letter to Times on Alito

1.23.2006

To The Editors, The New York Times

Your editorial rapping “Judge Alito’s Radical Views” (1.23.06) would be fine, were it not so disingenuous.

First of all, the question of religious bias was not raised. Addition of a fourth Catholic amounts to stacking the court, whatever anyone says. Then, after the other three justices professing that religion, Scalia, Roberts and Thomas, joined in dissenting against the majority in Oregon’s right to die laws, your observation “that Judge Alito would quickly vote to overturn Roe v Wade” is disingenuous, at best, is it not?

And what of his use of Concerned Alumni of Princeton (CAP) credentials for a Reagan job? Princeton alumnus Stephen Dujack, scheduled as witness to it’s tone, style dirty tricks, had characterized its “deception and peculiar madness”. He got scratched.

This voided an opportunity to open up discussion of the psychodynamics shaping our national identity. What CAP was to Princeton is no more, maybe less, than what America has endured from mainstream conservatism.

Sid Thomas
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