At Least

somebody outed the dominionist tendencies of some of the antiabortion activists:

Judge Alito is entitled to his personal views and Constitutional interpretations. The American people are entitled to know what they are before he is placed on their Supreme Court for the rest of his life, because his views and interpretations will profoundly affect their lives and the lives of future Americans.

Unfortunately, Judge Alito denied most of us those answers. It is noteworthy, however, that the Senators who feel most strongly about overturning Roe v. Wade all support Judge Alito and seem comfortable with his non-answers. I can’t imagine such equanimity without other, private assurances that the nominee’s bland platitudes belie a bedrock anti-Roe predisposition, as he stated candidly in 1985.

Certainly, the country’s anti-abortion activists get it. The thousands of them who marched on the Capitol last Tuesday reportedly cheered every time Judge Alito’s name was mentioned. Quoting parts of the New York Times and Washington Post reports:

" ‘We must support the confirmation of Judge Alito and other jurists who will support a strict-constructionist view of the law and make it possible once and for all to end Roe v. Wade,’ Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), a leading House conservative, thundered."

"While Mr. Bush made no explicit mention of his nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court, the expectation that the judge would soon win Senate approval and join a majority in overturning Roe was clearly the overarching message of the rally. . . .

"Nellie Gray, the president of March for Life, the group that organized the rally, said reversing Roe was this year’s theme. Speaking to the crowd in fiery tones, Ms. Gray predicted that the United States would hold the equivalent of Nuremberg trials for ‘feminist abortionists,’ calling support for a woman’s right to choose ‘crimes against humanity.’ "

To state the obvious, our country is being run by a gang of crooks and crackpots.