Biden Hypocritical In Opposition To Alito On Fox News Sunday
Biden Hypocritical In Opposition To Alito
On Fox News Sunday Senator Joseph Biden (D-DE) said of Judge Samuel Alito "clearly, clearly, you'll find a lot of people, including me, willing to do whatever they can to keep him off the court." Biden was upset over Alito s dissagreement with the 1962 Supreme Court case Baker vs. Carr, which Alito expressed in a 1985 job application.
Biden should be careful with his words, as a Washington Times Op-Ed points out this morning. John R. Lott Jr. writes If Mr. Biden carries through on his threat, it might result in the opposite of what he intends: Instead of embarrassing Judge Alito, such questioning may actually show Americans how much the Supreme Court has made up its own laws.
Lott is referring to the activist role the liberal Warren Court took in deciding Baker vs. Carr, saying that this decision (which established the principle of one man, one vote ) would have shocked the authors of the 14th Amendment.
Lott writes After all, did Mr. Biden ever put forward legislation to stop the unfair practice of giving Delaware and other small population states overrepresentation in the Senate? It will be interesting to see how he attacks Judge Alito without facing such obvious hypocrisy.
Katie MacGuidwin