Finding a Spine

It is about time that Democrats stood up for what they are supposed to stand for: progressive values. Chief among these values is empathy, for everybody. In order to stand up straight for those values you first need a backbone. It seems that in the face of a Supreme Court nominee who is definitively lacking empathy for women as Scalito would:

use the brief to promote "the goals of bringing about the eventual overturning of Roe v. Wade, and in the meantime, of mitigating its effects."

"make clear" to the Supreme Court that we "disagree with Roe v Wade," and "would welcome" the opportunity to brief the issue of overturning it.

You can also add his tenure in CAP to the evidence that demonstrates that Scalito is nothing short of unacceptable.

It makes me proud to be a progressive and a Democrat when, in the face of mounting evidence against Scalito, our congressional leaders are finally finding their spines.

"Certainly the chance of a filibuster is greater today than it was the day Alito was nominated because of so many new revelations," Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York and a member of the Judiciary Committee, said Thursday.

"This moves this very much into a much more controversial nomination," said Senator Barbara Boxer, Democrat of California, who faulted Judge Alito both for his views and for his failure to mention the case in his responses to the Senate.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts and a member of the panel, said Judge Alito bore "an especially heavy burden at the hearings in January to explain the growing number of discrepancies between his current statements and his past actions."

I still believe it was a mistake to let Roberts pass without a fight with his positions so unknown, but I am glad that we are finally putting up a fight. We cannot let a nominee who has purposefully concealed his opinions a pass, because he has been dishonest with the American people. Furthermore, just like Clarence Thomas, despite what he may say at confirmation hearings, there is nothing to stop him from turning his back on what he wanted senators to hear and proceeding down the path of his antiquated judicial philosophy. On that reason alone, senators from both sides of the aisle should put an end to Scalito, much like he would end a woman's right to control over her body.