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December 23, 2005
Nothing Like an Activist Judge
From the AP here
Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito defended the right of government officials to order domestic wiretaps when he worked for the Reagan Justice Department, documents released Friday show.
He advocated a step by step approach to strengthening the hand of officials in a 1984 memo to the solicitor general. The strategy is similar to the one that Alito espoused for rolling back abortion rights at the margins.
The release of the memo by the National Archives comes when
President Bush is under fire for secretly ordering domestic spying of suspected terrorists without a warrant. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., has promised to question Alito about the administration's program.
Tactics, tactics. The right can scream about activist judges, but if it is one of their own they seem remarkably quiet. Why is that?
Posted by Chip Spear at December 23, 2005 4:40 PM
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