Roe is just a red herring. The real danger of this guy and Roberts is that they are so pro-corporation they make my teeth hurt. The WSJ Reports on
Scalito's pro-business opinions:Last year, Judge Alito wrote an opinion striking down a Pennsylvania law that barred alcoholic-beverage advertising in college newspapers. The law violated advertisers' First Amendment rights, he found, while doing little to prevent underage drinkers from seeing liquor ads, since they were prevalent in many other media to which students had access.
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Judge Alito has insisted on enforcement of contract terms challenged as unfair or otherwise as void, such as provisions that require consumers to use arbitration rather than lawsuits to pursue complaints, said Larry E. Ribstein, a law professor at the University of Illinois. Such contract terms can be "a very useful technique that business has today in avoiding excessive litigation," said Mr. Ribstein
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One potentially hot-button case was a 2001 opinion joined by Judge Alito that set aside Environmental Protection Agency orders to clean up ammonia from a fertilizer plant that polluted drinking-water wells in Lansing, Mich. In that case, the majority found the agency lacked a "rational basis" for the remediation it required of W.R. Grace & Co., the fertilizer-plant operator.
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Yesterday, the advocacy group Earthjustice issued a statement claiming Judge Alito repeatedly has sought to scale back congressional power "to enact laws that protect our health and environment."
These are part of a much more insidious worldview than the narrow focus the NARAL types will lock in on. The idea that advertising is "speech", or that businesses can put clauses in contracts that totally screw consumers like required arbitration which even the WSJ has reported
screws consumers as part of a credit card company plot. We should just ignore
Roe so we can actually argue about this stuff that's gonna kill us, bankrupt us, or allow advertisers to claim free speech rights.
1 Comments:
My favorite Scalito position is YES on strip-searching ten-year-old girls! It's little girls gone wild when Scary Sammy's on the bench. Naked kiddies? And he's not even a priest!
5:43 PM, November 01, 2005
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