Monday, October 31, 2005
Moderate? Or Not?
Bush's new Supreme Court pick split rulings in gay school cases
Alito ruled for conservatives in one case, for effeminate student in 2nd
Maybe he's not as much of a right-wing wacko as we think. One can only hope but if this news gets out he may be toast just like Miers.
Alito ruled for conservatives in one case, for effeminate student in 2nd
Maybe he's not as much of a right-wing wacko as we think. One can only hope but if this news gets out he may be toast just like Miers.
In 2004, Alito issued an opinion in Shore Regional High School vs. P.S., reversing a federal judge's ruling that required a student who had been severely bullied for being
effeminate from attending a high school with the same students who had harassed
him for years.
Both opinions were written on behalf of unanimous three-judge panels of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, based in Philadelphia.The split between the two school rulings by Alito — one striking down a broadly worded anti-harassment policy and the other protecting a student subjected to severe anti-gay harassment — suggest that while Alito is a conservative judge, he is not afraid to use the court's power to remedy a situation he views as unjust.
