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Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. would reduce abortion rights to a “hollow shell” if he were confirmed to the Supreme Court, Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 told the Senate Judiciary Committee on the final day of the nominee’s hearings yesterday...
Tribe, the Loeb University professor at Harvard, told the panel that while Alito would be unlikely to directly overrule Roe v. Wade, the nominee would chip away at abortion rights slowly over the course of his tenure...
...With the vote of Judge Alito as Justice Alito, the court will cut back on Roe v. Wade step by step—not just to the point where, as the moderate American center has it, abortion is cautiously restricted—but to the point where the fundamental, underlying right to liberty becomes a hollow shell,” Tribe said in his testimony...
...after Tribe spent more than seven minutes expressing his concerns about Alito, the Senate committee’s chairman, Arlen Specter, R-Penn., asked Tribe once more whether he was really abstaining from offering a recommendation...
...Most news analysts are saying that Alito is a shoo-in as a Justice. But I can't be the only one who is deeply troubled by his inexplicable memory lapse while under oath. Honest sworn testimony is the very foundation of our judicial system. Experiences involving strong emotion are the ones we remember best. No way that he forgot his position on dear old alma mater...