Samuel Alito became the fifth non-liberal member of the Supreme Court when he was sworn in as an Associate Justice of the US Supreme Court at 12:40 pm today, replacing the retired Sandra Day O'Connor. This appointment should shift the balance of the court from the often far-left, with as many as 6 of 9 votes going in a liberal direction on recent cases.
With Alito replacing the schizophrenically-opinioned O'Connor's "swing vote," the pivotal Justice on the court becomes onetime conservative Anthony Kennedy, a Reagan appointee whose opinions have drifted farther to the left in recent years. If the four conservatives on the court can pull Kennedy with them, then the higher court should swing from a left-leaning, law-writing mindset toward one of objective judicial review and constitutional analysis and interpretation--a mindset more in line with the intent of the framers of the Constitution and founders of our country.
http://today.reuters.com/news/newsarticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyid=2006-01-31T214637Z_01_N31400081_RTRUKOC_0_US-COURT-ALITO.xml&rpc=22
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The hope is that the four staunchly on the right, including the two newest faces, can bring him back from the Dark Side. We shall see.
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