re: #192 Sergey Romanov

No, I didn’t like the Alito nomination at all either. This might come as a shock but I’m not actually fond of many of the members of the court. In my own personal opinion they’re all too pro-federal. Scalia and Thomas occassionally come through on individual civil rights when it comes to criminal law but not often enough for me to be a cheerleader and while I would expect the left side of the court to be the leaders on those individual rights it seems when those rights butt up against the perceived power of the feds they’ll almost always side with the feds.

Take this ruling from yesterday. There was only 1 member of the court was willing to say (paraphrased) “maybe peoples cars and movements should be considered private”. Just one justice out of 9. The writer of the article suggests that Scalia might concur but he didn’t take the time to actually say it so who knows.

It might be interesting to see if Thomas and Sotomayor find some way to work together. That could be fun.