President Bush’s nomination of Samuel Alito to fill Sandra Day O’Connor’s seat as an associate justice meets the demands of the corporate elite for another vote on the Supreme Court to slash government regulation of business operations. Alito has, at the same time, expressed sufficiently reactionary views on “hot button” issues such as abortion to placate the religious extremists who torpedoed last month’s nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers.
The White House also calculates that Alito’s low-key demeanor will provide the administration’s nominal opponents in the Democratic Party with political cover for acceding to this extreme right-wing nomination during the confirmation process.
Of key concern to big business is Alito’s record on rolling back governmental powers to regulate business and commerce. During his 15 years on the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, Alito has heard appeals of federal court rulings in the populous industrialized states of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, as well as in Delaware, where many of the nation’s largest corporations have their headquarters. Alito has ruled consistently in favor of big business and against the interests of workers and consumers. The Wall Street Journal gushed in a November 1 editorial about Alito’s “regard for free markets and ... recognition of the legal and regulatory challenges facing business.”
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/nov2005/alit-n09.shtml
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