Alito

Once again the United States Senate natters away its sole opportunity to really discover what sort of man has been put forward for the US Supreme Court. During judge Alito’s two days of questioning Republican Senators were fawningly playing softball, while the Democrats were predictably mired in issues that are so last millennium.

Senator Feinstein is reported to have said that Roe was a decision “women all over America have come to depend on.” Write a law- shape a culture. Or in this case overturn a dozen state laws via court order, and then staunchly defend the decision against over-overturning and declare it to be “settled (albeit extra-legislative) law”

Oddly enough, the second big issue for the Senators was Alito’s view on separation of powers.
Selah
Yes, the Senators who are up in arms about over-reaching in the Executive have no thoughts whatever about the courts overstepping into their own province of law making.

What emerges again, as in the hearings for Chief Justice Roberts last fall, is that the Senators are more taken with the daily scandal sheets than with the Constitution, and more interested in giving one another a black eye than in deciding what will work best for the country over the next thirty years.

On second thought, maybe it is for the best they leave lawmaking to the courts.