Alito Reveals His Personal Thought On Abortion

Posted on November 15, 2005

Well, that didn't take long. We now have unequivocal evidence of the extremist positions favored by Supreme Court nominee Alito. In a job application to work for the Reagan administration, Alito did a little favor-curring dance in which he layed out his credentials. They include being proud of the fact that he believes that the Consitution does not guarantee a woman the right to choose.

In a 1985 job application, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. expressed his strong belief that the Constitution does not protect abortion and stated his opposition to "racial and ethnic quotas."
Alito, President Bush's nominee to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court, made the statements in an application for a political appointment to a top Justice Department post in the Reagan administration. Then an assistant to the solicitor general in the administration, he was applying to be deputy assistant attorney general, a job he eventually obtained two years later.
Asked on the application form to explain his "philosophical commitment to the policies of this administration," Alito wrote on an attached sheet, "I am and always have been a conservative and an adherent to the same philosophical views that I believe are central to this Administration."
It was "an honor and a source of personal satisfaction" to help advance Reagan administration legal positions "in which I personally believe very strongly," Alito wrote. "I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion."

So, it's an honor and a source of satisfacton to him to treat women as children who are unable to make their decisions. Justice O'Connor herself slapped Alito down hard for writing that a woman needed her husband's prior approval before obtaining an abortion, thereby treating women the same as 14 year-old girls under the law. Now George Bush wants to replace O'Connor with Alito. Isn't that ironic?

You can see the application at The Smoking Gun.