THE ANTI-ALITO TALKING POINTS

Here they are. For the record, I find the whole process of taking results from someone’s judicial record and inferring policy preferences from them to be one of the major factors corrupting the judiciary and judicial selection process. What matters is not the result of someone’s decisions, but the reasoning that led to them. That’s what requires analysis. But in the coming culture war spat, we’re not likely to hear that. I might also say that the litany of results the anti-Alito forces have just produced are probably quite effective rhetorically and in ads. I can see the mantra of the “Halloween appointment” becoming routine. Groan.