'The truth is that Alito is not what the Left claims he is. He isn’t a partisan or conservative policy crusader. He’s a careful jurist who applies the law without fear or favor.' -QuinHillyer
,” one who is “ambitious and extreme,” and “zealous” with a “snide pugnaciousness.” And, in a prototypical disparagement, former federal law clerks David Lat and Zachary Shemtob distinguished Alito even from other high-court conservatives by accusing him of being a “blanket partisan” who “consistentlyIn the conservative legal world, nothing could be a bigger insult than to be accused of enacting policy preferences rather than following the law as written.
Alito’s April 14 order provided the most recent proof that the insult was baseless. Alito is thought to be personally pro-life, and his jurisprudence consistently has favored the anti-abortion side of most court disputes. If he were a mere partisan working to achieve his favored own “policy outcome,” he would have surely allowed a lower-court injunction to remain in place against the abortion drug mifepristone.
The truth is that Alito is not what the Left claims he is. He isn’t a partisan or conservative policy crusader. He’s a careful jurist who applies the law without fear or favor. In the mifepristone case, the full Supreme Court is due on Wednesday to consider an appeal of the decision outlawing the drug. The ordinary legal posture in such circumstances is to set aside an injunction favoring one of the parties until the full court can consider the legal arguments in full.
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