Alito upheld in Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey a law requiring a woman to notify her husband before obtaining an abortion; Sandra Day O'Connor and a majority of the Supreme Court disagreed, stating "a State may not give to a man the kind of dominion over his wife that parents exercise over their children."
6. Alito has opposed remedies for victims of discrimination.
Alito as an applicant for a job in Edwin Meese's Justice Department proudly cited his membership in an alumni group notorious for opposing admission of women and minorities to his alma mater.
Alito repeated wrote dissenting opinions putting up barriers to victims of discrimination -- particularly women and people of color -- to bring their cases to trial, let alone to prevail; one court majority went so far as to write that Alito's view would have "eviscerated" federal anti-bias laws.
Alito has sided against 75% of people raising discrimination claims and against immigrants in seven out of eight cases before him.
Alito as a federal judge agreed that American citizens could be kept off juries in some cases simply because they spoke Spanish.
Alito as a federal appeals court judge argued that discrimination cases should not even reach a jury if an employer claimed to have picked the "best candidate," even if the employer exercised conscious racial bias; the other judges in the case rejected his reasoning as having the potential to gut legal protections against racial discrimination.
5. Alito has opposed workers, consumers, and small business hurt by big business.
Alito applied legal doctrines inconsistently in various discrimination cases, consistently siding with powerful corporate interests against such victims as disabled or injured workers.
Alito has "seldom sided" with consumers suing big business.
Alito as judge ruled against a small business hurt by the anti-competitive practices of a large corporation that violated the Sherman Antitrust Act; the other judges in the case overruled him.
4. Alito has opposed environmental protection.
Alito voted to make it more difficult for citizens to sue alleged polluters under the Clean Water Act; his reasoning was soundly rejected by the Supreme Court in another case.
Alito as a government lawyer and as a federal judge tried to limit the power of Congress to apply the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which gives the federal government the authority to regulate activities within and between states, as to protect the environment with pollution controls or the Endangered Species Act; the Supreme Court will soon hear cases that could well render the Clean Water Act unenforceable.
3. Alito has opposed laws to protect society from violent crime as well as Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of the accused.
Alito as a government lawyer and as a federal judge tried to limit the power of Congress to apply the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, as to regulate the distribution of machine guns.
6. Alito has opposed remedies for victims of discrimination.
Alito as an applicant for a job in Edwin Meese's Justice Department proudly cited his membership in an alumni group notorious for opposing admission of women and minorities to his alma mater.
Alito repeated wrote dissenting opinions putting up barriers to victims of discrimination -- particularly women and people of color -- to bring their cases to trial, let alone to prevail; one court majority went so far as to write that Alito's view would have "eviscerated" federal anti-bias laws.
Alito as a federal judge agreed that American citizens could be kept off juries in some cases simply because they spoke Spanish.
Alito as a federal appeals court judge argued that discrimination cases should not even reach a jury if an employer claimed to have picked the "best candidate," even if the employer exercised conscious racial bias; the other judges in the case rejected his reasoning as having the potential to gut legal protections against racial discrimination.
5. Alito has opposed workers, consumers, and small business hurt by big business.
Alito applied legal doctrines inconsistently in various discrimination cases, consistently siding with powerful corporate interests against such victims as disabled or injured workers.
Alito has "seldom sided" with consumers suing big business.
Alito as judge ruled against a small business hurt by the anti-competitive practices of a large corporation that violated the Sherman Antitrust Act; the other judges in the case overruled him.
4. Alito has opposed environmental protection.
Alito voted to make it more difficult for citizens to sue alleged polluters under the Clean Water Act; his reasoning was soundly rejected by the Supreme Court in another case.
Alito as a government lawyer and as a federal judge tried to limit the power of Congress to apply the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, which gives the federal government the authority to regulate activities within and between states, as to protect the environment with pollution controls or the Endangered Species Act; the Supreme Court will soon hear cases that could well render the Clean Water Act unenforceable.
3. Alito has opposed laws to protect society from violent crime as well as Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of the accused.
Alito as a government lawyer and as a federal judge tried to limit the power of Congress to apply the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, as to regulate the distribution of machine guns.
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