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Democrats hope to keep the discontent burning. Representative Rahm Emanuel, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, sent a memo to the party's House candidates around the country, urging them to "host town hall [meetings] with seniors, visit senior centers and build a higher profile explaining that the Republicans' plan for Medicare is not working...
...That memo is significant because Alito’s opponents have used it as evidence to suggest that the nominee would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade...
Fried wrote in the New York Times last week that “Alito’s detractors ignore the context and the content” of the 1985 abortion memo. The op-ed also defended a 1984 memo by Alito, in which the future high-court nominee argued that executive-branch officials who order illegal domestic wiretaps should be immune from personal liability...
...Fried is likely to draw attention to a recommendation against “a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade” in Alito’s memo...
...speech, for instance, Alito argued that the framers viewed the Executive Branch of government "as necessary to balance the huge power of the legislature and the factions that may gain control over it." Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy has said he would question Alito about a 1984 memo in which he argued the Attorney General should be immune from lawsuits even if he authorized illegal domestic wiretapping...