Bush Brings It On With Choice of Alito

In two other major abortion-related cases, Alito concurred in a ruling that overturned New Jersey's partial-birth abortion ban, and also in a ruling that a fetus was not a "person" under the 14th Amendment (see Terence Jeffrey's column on Page 5). In both cases, he made clear that this opinion was dictated by Supreme Court precedent. In neither case did he reveal his own views on the constitutional issues at stake.

Would Alito vote to overturn Roe and other activist opinions issued by the Supreme Court over the past 40 years? Nobody can know for sure. But liberals fear his judicial philosophy demonstrates that he might-and that is the minimum fear liberals ought to have heading into a confirmation process for a Republican Supreme Court nominee.

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