Alito: Have to Consider Life Experiences when Ruling Cases

[carmellaparent]

Thanks for sharing THIS. Awesome Post!!

[tomestubbs]

Scum of the earth. Dogmatic piece of fecal matter does not understand reasoning but rather kisses the ass of the powers that be. He is a slave to the special interests!

[BDiegoTube]

Samuel Alito is a hypocrite and traitor to the United States. He lied during confirmation, and he doesn't believe in the Constitution of the United States. What a surprise, he's not the only one but certainly the worst.

[peveritis]

Alito's Gay ancestors were kept in the closet and unknown to him, evidently.

Outa sight = Nonexistent

[ghostzapper2006]

Hey white trash, Alitp said the same exact things Sodamayor said only in different words. now get back to your gopterd neotrash KKK meeting. It's always funny listeing to you bigoted Neotrash calling other people racist. Go take a look at your own laughable party's rallies = mostly white, mostly racist and that's coming from a white guy. LOL

[ghostzapper2006]

Alito is another Neocon who just ensured that speciail interest groups and corporations elect US leadership in the future. He's a classic corpo fascist neocon.

[wilverbal]

Alito didn't say that being white and having the experiences of a white person would lead him to issue better rulings than being Latina and having the experiences of a Latina woman. If he had said that, he would've been immediately branded a racist (by the very same hypocrites who're defending Sotomayor) and his nomination would have to be withdrawn.

Sotomayor is a racist. She said that being Latina, and having the experiences of a Latina, would lead to making better decisions. That's racist.

[ApocalypseKurtz]

She made a mistake and said so. Suck it.

[wilverbal]

Ah, what nice, respectful, non-demagogic arguments we get from Sotomayor's defenders. "Suck it." What a nice, intellectual person you are, that this is the sort of thing you choose to say.

No, she did not make a mistake. She knew what she was saying, and she meant it. She didn't just make that statement once; she repeated the statement in a peer-reviewed law journal. When she said she made a mistake, she was lying.

Now you suck it.

[richcon]

She's the victim of editing. She was talking about experience in the context of race, not about race itself. She said, in short, that latina women who are "wise" and have experience will make better decisions than white males *who lack experience*.The parts of her quote that made this clear were edited out by practically everyone to make it shorter and more to the point they were trying to make.

[wilverbal]

If that were true, she could've said so at her confirmation hearing. She didn't.

[ivyshoots]

Alito is describing EMPATHY.

[DCJ14687]

Write your Senator and demand that Sotomayor not be approved for the Supreme Court.

[ver506]

My senator better vote to approve this qualified woman to the Supreme court, or he's totally screwed!!!!

[Magoo154]

Why would I do that? Because you said so? She appears to be one of the more qualified candidates for the Supreme Court over the last 20 years or so.

[eurohim]

Hmm he talks about how he thinks about this and that, and also says he doesn't bend or break the law because of it.

[smmm1968]

Alito: when I have a case involving a blow job, I find myself think about my own experiences getting blow jobs. Ya, those were the times..

[Rainsdad]

he didnt say that

[popcur]

Sotomayor sole purpose her main goals is to water down or get rid of the 2nd admendment gun grabber Schlmer supports her told critics to not to crtitize her

[jayraskin]

Good video. It shows the extreme hypocrisy of the Republican Party yahoos. When a white male says that their background shapes their decisions, they are silent, while a Latina woman says the identical thing, they scream "racism." Everybody knows who the real racists are.

[d1stewart1]

Actually he said "have shaped me as a person." Not "shape my decisions."

Everybody does know who the real racists are: Democrats, leftists, and all their attendant racialists.

[eurohim]

Ummm maybe the fact that she actually compared races and genders... wait, you won't ever see the difference if you haven't yet.

[lees20022]

And Alito say's" I have to think of" and " I can't help but think of"

He does NOT say "I have to consider" and never say the words "life experiences"

[ssbohio]

I see the terms "think of" and "consider" as synonymous. How do their meanings differ, in your view?

[lees20022]

---" SO, IT'S MY JOB TO APPLY THE LAW. IT'S NOT MY JOB TO CHANGE THE LAW OR BEND THE LAW TO ACHIEVE ANY RESULT.."

That is what is left out of Sotomayor's comments.

The question being asked of him was to answer his critic's who claimed he wasn't senitive to minorities.

It was not about how like in Sotomayor's comment, he arrives at rulings of cases he's reviewing.

[UGOTDAJACK]

You are a pathetic excuse for a human being. Go bang your head on a concrete wall you dumbass!

[eurohim]

Don't say that. You'll make the doublethinker's heads hurt.

[burntonion05]

That settles it, Alito is a racist.

[PrezAlex]

He's like David Duke for Italians. What kind of candidate for president would nominate this sort of bigot and what kind of party would support that candidate?

[jepesp]

Hummmm....perhaps Obama nominating Sonia Sotomayor and the Democrats supporting her.

[eurohim]

He didn't say his race and gender gave him any special insight and/or ability like Sotomayor did. She did. You seem to have mastered doublethink.

[burntonion05]

No he did not mention those specific things, but he did mention that he would make decisions based on how he feels about the situation (empathy). The racist comment was a joke and anyone who takes my joke seriously needs help.

[eurohim]

Your joke was obviously a ploy on how people are saying Sotomayor is racist, but it is a bad joke because it wasn't about her saying that she uses life experiences to make decisions, it was about her comments on how one race is going to make a better decision than another.

[doulos1981]

She didn't say one race or gender, but some members of that race or gender who have had those experiences. This wisdom was not inherent in the race or gender, but learned. It is the difference between street smarts and book smarts.

[eurohim]

What is the use of comparing two races or genders if the only difference she meant to talk about was their level of knowledge? She might has well said that one person with knowledge vs another person without knowledge is better. Although a judge shouldn't favor a group because of personal reasons, their purpose is to hand out verdicts based on the law as written in the most neutral way possible.

[eurohim]

Also, he didn't say once that he would make decisions based off of life experiences or how he feels. He said he can't help but think about that stuff. He did say that "it's not my job to change the law or bend the law to achieve any result." Thus, he thinks about it, but he tries not to let that affect his decision.

[doulos1981]

And Sotomayor said that impartiality is something to be aspired to, yet she doesn't think that complete impartiality is possible. The point of race and gender was that they would have experienced the law differently. In the immediate context the application of the law relative to the 14 amendment. What the judges of Topeka vs Brown had to learn, someone with different experiences would know.

[chgosatrap]

The whole quote is not here, but on Huffington Post.

[thelittlesea]

some of the best comments i've read in a while... this video is simply amazing.

[atm94404]

Neocons will just say "That's different. Alito was just saying he had empathy. He was just saying that to please Congress. No one in their right mind would think Alito really had empathy. Bushed picked him, after all."

[eurohim]

He also said he wouldn't bend or break any laws in a decision. Also, he didn't say that his race and gender made him superior to other races and genders. This is very different from what Sonia said. It seems everyone on Sotomayor's side seems to purposely ignore those facts.

[MichaelConrad1D]

Empathy = Socialism = Gay Agenda = Fighting Them Over There So We Don't Have To Fight Them Over Here.... er something.

Alito has the Empathy Virus? Boot him from the court! Effin' Activist!

He's sympathetic to immigrants? Deport him!

He MUST be replaced be either Tom Tancredo, Pat Buchanan, Glenn Beck, Lord Limbaugh, Neil Boortz (who is a big fan of Truck Nutz), Dog the Bounty Hunter, or someone else with impeccable credentials. in the thinly veiled racism department.

[MichaelConrad1D]

I am so ashamed of myself. I forgot the honorable next Governor of Georgia (it could happen) Neil Horsley.

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[Deweydecible]

The Horror of his empathy!

[everysandwich]

The Dems opposed him.

[pezcore66]

so we agree both sides are hypocrits. glad youd decided to come around.... last time i checked, alito was sitting on the bench... wonder whatll happen this time around...

[PrezAlex]

Incorrect. He's on the Supreme Court. If the "Dems" opposed him, he would have been blocked, don't you think?

[technicschic]

In addition to the other comments, they opposed him for other reasons besides his 1 minute statement regarding "empathy" shown here - a lot GOOD other reasons why they opposed him.

[gsuitter]

To me the issue of life experience is far less important then the Constitution.

"The Second Amendment applies ONLY to limitations the FEDERAL government seeks to impose on this right.

—Opinion of the court, including Judge Sotomayor, Maloney v. Cuomo 2009

To say the 2nd amendment ONLY applies to FEDERAL limitations on constitutional rights and not to state and local governments is ludacris.

Is this a philosophy Sotomayor would apply to the whole Bill of Rights? If so goodbye Constitution!

[chalkman53]

2nd Amendment: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

That's all it says. The federal govt reserves this right. "Free State" is referred to throughout as the collection of the 13 colonies.

[thinkresultz]

I knew it! Alito must be a racist, radical, temperamental, intellectual lightweight, leftist, activist, commie overflowing with "empathy"!!!!

[classicallady]

thinkresultz...He is intrinsically a "commie", haven't you heard??? MaCarthy on him...!

[fishhead06]

You don't understand - it's okay for conservatives to have values based on life experience; it's just not okay for liberals! Sigh.

[nlbmsportin]

I just love it.

Good work on the pick of Sotomayor Obama.

[TheRamenAvenger]

OH what a giveaway. Racist! Racist! Someone call Glenn Beck and Tom Tancredo quick!

[lamouchemorte]

yes!

[AstoundedAtheist]

What!?!?

How dare he have empathy!?!?

clearly a radical....

[3star2nr]

so much for that debate next attack please

[JerezJulio]

That's what I call a devastating blow for the prosecution case.

[437thx1138]

OMG another racist socialist. The Neocons know about video cameras right? And I don't mean Conservatives or Republicans. The Neocon wing is still in charge of that asylum .

[SkyDaddy7]

Well, that kinda takes the wind out of the right wing nut jobs sails...As if there was any wind at their back in the first place.

Obama has kept the right on their heels since day one and I think it is very funny considering they said he had no experience!

[Smartassawhip]

Someone should just give them a gun and let them blow their brains out... watching them commit suicide like this is almost inhumane.

[sirdaveysockrocker]

ooooh right wing alito saying empathy and life experience is needed on the court. take THAT crazy neocon assholes. XD