"Perhaps it's believable that Alito was, as he said, an inactive member of the group not well acquainted with its activities when he joined. But thirty years later, when he mentioned his 'proud membership' in the group on his job application to the Reagan Justice Department, there is no way he could have missed the news that other prominent alumni, including Bill Frist, had denounced CAP's retrograde positions. 'You are a very careful and cautious person,' Leahy said. Alito must surely have taken great care with that job application, and knew the implications of everything he put on it. Lindsey Graham had the best line on that and other instances of Alito's faulty memory: 'I hope you'll understand if some of us come before a court and we can't remember Abramoff, you'll tend to believe us.'"

"We Need to Hear More From Alito on Executive Power" by Ruth Conniff at The Progressive's website.

Actually I don't think we need to hear from Alito on this--we already know exactly where he stands re "executive power." It's obvious that he's pledged his allegiance to Thief-in-Chief George W. Bush . . . and the Republican Party, Big Money--the whole rotten alliance of greedyguts corporate assholes and gun-slinging, psychopathic wingnut fanatics.