DUMB AND DUMBER DEMS RIPPING INTO JUSTICE ALITO
Updated: Mon., Feb. 1, 2010, 4:29 AM
Judging Bam’s Supreme slam
Last Updated: 4:29 AM, February 1, 2010
Senate Democrats, taking a cue from President Obama, are ripping into Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito for his understandable (and understated) display of disagreement with the president’s misrepresentation of a recent court decision.
During last week’s State of the Union Address, recall, Obama launched into an unpresidential attack on the court’s upending of the McCain-Feingold campaign-finance act.
Obama incorrectly claimed the ruling — in which Alito joined the 5-4 majority — would permit foreign corporate campaign contributions in US elections.
TV cameras just happened to focus on Alito during this part of the speech — during which he shook his head and mouthed the words “not true.”
To hear Democrats tell it, Alito’s reaction was akin to GOP Rep. Joe Wilson’s shout of “you lie” during Obama’s health-care speech to Congress last fall.
“Inappropriate” and “not very judicial,” huffed Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wisc.), who also complained that Alito had failed to “maintain his judicial demeanor.”
“Totally classless,” added Delaware’s Ted Kaufman, the Democratic seat-warmer for what was expected to be a run by Vice President Joe Biden’s son, Beau.
Talk about really classless.
Alito was under no obligation to sit impassively when faced with a verbal assault from the president of the United States — particularly at such an inappropriate forum.
And especially when, as even several liberal commentators and legal bloggers have noted, Alito — and not Obama — was right on the facts.
Given the provocation, Alito was remarkably restrained.
To say nothing of correct.
Time to cut him some slack.
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