Professor Bainbridge writes about this statement from Eleanor Smeal, President of the Feminist Majority Foundation:
The Feminist Majority opposes the nomination of Samuel Alito to replace Sandra Day O?Connor on the Supreme Court. Alito is no O?Connor. Instead of reaching out to women and/or people of color to make the Supreme Court more diverse and representative, Bush has slammed the door in the face of women and minorities. He has appointed a man who would turn back the clock on women?s rights and civil rights. Not only is the Court not representative in terms of race and gender, but also in terms of religion ? with Alito, the majority of the Court would be Roman Catholics, which would underrepresent other religions, not to mention nonbelievers.
Too many Catholics huh Eleanor ? Sounds to me like the same sort of anti-Catholic sentiment we heard after John Roberts was nominated. Interesting how the left resorts to this sort of thing when they have no real intellectual arguments to make.
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