{"id":135,"date":"2005-10-31T15:35:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-31T19:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/10\/31\/scalitos-way\/"},"modified":"2005-10-31T15:35:48","modified_gmt":"2005-10-31T19:35:48","slug":"scalitos-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/2005\/10\/31\/scalitos-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Scalito’s Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a><\/p>\n

Roe v. Wade has never been a big deal for me (though, if they were to overturn Roe and Griswold*<\/a>, that would be another story).  So, it is of no huge matter to me that the new nominee’s mother<\/a>
\ncandidly admits, “Of course he’s against abortion.” (Part of me also
\nharbors the belief that if Roe was overturned, it would galvinize the
\n“blue states” out of their apathy  to combat the extreme Right
\nwith real energy)<\/p>\n

I haven’t investigated his positions on the big issues (though, I heard
\nthe a murmur that he would return us to the laissez fair, big business
\nrun-amok, Lochner<\/a> world *shudder*), but at least, I can point out that he follows Professor Fried’s mode of being 1st Amendment – Free Speech friendly<\/a>.  
\nOne small consolation if his opponents lose the confirmation battle.
\n(And, I know somewhere, out there, a grad student is reading this and
\nmuttering, “E*…Pollyanna!”)<\/p>\n

Edit: Ew, he’s not so great on 4th Amendment<\/a> restraints against search and seizure.<\/p>\n

**<\/p>\n

Oh, and just as there is currently an HLS-majority on the SCOTUS, if
\nAlito is approved, there will be a Catholic majority, and it could have
\nthis impact<\/a>.<\/p>\n

*The right to privacy originated in Griswold.  Without that ruling, states would be able to ban contraceptives entirely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Roe v. Wade has never been a big deal for me (though, if they were to overturn Roe and Griswold*, that would be another story).  So, it is of no huge matter to me that the new nominee’s mother candidly admits, “Of course he’s against abortion.” (Part of me also harbors the belief that if […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalese"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ecclog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}