Roe, Roe, Roe Your Boat
The Senate Judiciary Committee is about to take up the matter of Judge Samuel Alito as the President’s nominee to the Supreme Court. May all who have an interest draw near.
The Supreme Court and, by inference, nominees to that court have become single-issue objects of debate. It is all about Roe vs Wade and has been for some years now. An abortion issue litmus test obscures any deeper rational interrogation into a prospective judge’s more widely acquired qualifications.
And now, somehow we have added another foolishness; whether or not Judge Alito’s head may be satisfactorily Photo-Shopped onto the robed figure of Justice Sandra Day O’Connor to satisfy . . . what? . . . or whom? The Senate is advising and consenting to a president's nominee and it is in no way germain to that choice or that advice that the nominee be the ideological equivalent of Justice O'Connor.
I find some comfort in the fact that each extreme on these issues of Roe and separation of church and state finds fault with …