The NY Times editorial page yesterday asked the Senate to study whether or not Alito is honest:
The Senate should also explore Judge Alito's honesty. According to a senator he met with, he tried to dismiss his statement about the Constitution's not protecting abortion as merely part of a job application, which suggests he will bend the truth when it suits his purposes. Judge Alito has said he does not recall being in an ultraconservative group called Concerned Alumni of Princeton, which opposed co-education and affirmative action. That is odd, since he boasted of his membership in that same 1985 job application. The tortuous history of his promise to Congress to recuse himself in cases involving the Vanguard companies, which he ultimately failed to do, should also be explored.Samuel Alito has not been honest. He has been spinning his way through the process and the truth has been a casualty.
This is an appointment to the highest court in the land and the nominee can't seem to tell the truth. At any other time in history, that alone would torpedo the nomination. But the Bush administration has made lying their standard operating procedure. Unfortunately, Republican Senators have accepted that standard.
