As the New York Times commented, this should be the nail in the coffin about Alito’s position on Roe v. Wade:
“Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. once urged the Reagan administration to use a circuitous approach to challenging Roe v. Wade, arguing that promoting and defending state regulations on abortion would have a ‘mitigating effect’ on the 1973 Supreme Court ruling that established a constitutional right to abortion.”
Having failed with the strategy of advancing candidates whose historic views are opaque or obscure, it seems to me the dysadministration’s counterattack on this would have to be the counterintuitive insistence that his views more than 20 years ago are not indicative of his current views. Oh, yes, and the simpleminded “no litmus test” mantra.
