Alito refuses to acknowledge "super-duper precedent" in Roe v. Wade decision

Alito refuses to acknowledge "super-duper precedent" in Roe v. Wade decision...

Do not cease the struggle to stop the abominations of murder in your city, your country, and the world. The murder of the Holy Innocents shall bring down great destruction upon your city and your country, My child.” - Our Lady of the Roses, December 31, 1974

LifeSiteNews.com reported on January 11, 2006:

In his third day of intense questioning, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito continues what has proved to be a strong, thoughtful performance that has left Democrats little room for criticism of Bush’s newest candidate for the Supreme Court.

As in the nomination battle over justice Roberts last year, much attention has been given to Alito’s stance on abortion. And much like Roberts’ nomination battle, the last few days of questioning have seen Democrats grilling Alito on hypothetical situations which, as a judge who may very well face future court cases on the matter, he cannot responsibly answer.

Unlike Roberts, however, Alito has refused to cave and label the landmark 1973 abortion decision, Roe V. Wade, as “settled law”.

Pressed by Sen. Arlen Specter to state his opinion regarding Roe V. Wade Alito admitted that the decision bore a great deal of legal weight, especially considering it has been several times revisited and reaffirmed by the Supreme Court. However, he added “Sometimes changes in the situation in the real world can call for the overruling of a precedent.”

“I personally would not get into categorizing precedents as super-precedents or super-duper precedents,” he continued, saying “it sort of reminds me of the size of laundry detergent in the supermarket.”

“I don’t want to leave the impression that stare decisis is an inexorable command because the Supreme Court has said that it is not.”

Under questioning by Senator Brownback, Alito confirmed that previous persistent Supreme Court rulings had been rightly overturned, most notably that of racial segregation that was overturned in the 1954 ruling Brown v. Board of Education.

In yet another parallel to the nomination battle over judge Roberts, much attention has been paid to an early piece of the nominee’s writing on abortion, in this case an application essay written by Alito in the mid 1980s written while applying for a position in the Reagan administration. In that essay Alito asserted that the Constitution contains no right to abortion.

Despite intense pressure to renege on that opinion Alito has refused to do so. Responding to a question from Sen. Charles Schumer on the matter the nominee responded “Senator, it was an accurate statement of my view at the time, and I made it from the vantage point of an attorney in the attorney general’s office.” He then clarified, still without giving any evidence of a change of opinion, “That was a statement that I made at a prior period of time when I was performing a different role and, as I said yesterday, when someone becomes a judge you really have to put aside the things you did as a lawyer at prior points in your legal career.”

After further and unsuccessfully pressuring Alito to state his current personal opinions regarding abortion Schumer later stated in exasperation, “We can only conclude that if the question came before the court, it is very likely you would vote to overrule Roe versus Wade.”

According to the current schedule, subject to change should Alito’s hearings experience any sort of delay, a full vote by the Senate on Alito’s confirmation will occur January 20. Most commentators at this point are expecting Alito to be successfully confirmed, although significant opposition does remain in the senate.

"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady of the Roses, April 14, 1984

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These prophecies came from Jesus, Mary, and the saints to Veronica Lueken at Bayside, NY, from 1968 to 1995:

SIN OF OMISSION
"The sin of omission shall condemn many to hell, be they layman or Hierarchy. I repeat: not the sin of commission, but the sin of omission will commit many to hell. Among them there will be also mitres." - Our Lady, October 6, 1980

THE UNITED STATES SHALL BE FIRST STRUCK
"One of the reasons the Eternal Father chose your city and your state for My appearance was because of abortion, the murder of the holy innocents. Your nation, without repentance, shall be the first struck." - Our Lady, March 15, 1978

THE UNITED STATES SHALL FALL
"How can a great country like the United States fall, you say, My child? You ask Me in your heart. I read your heart. I will tell you why. Because they have given themselves over to satan. When a country has lost its morality and seeks the pleasures of the flesh, giving over, themselves over, to all manner of abominations, like homosexuality, and condoning this up the highest courts of the land, then that country shall fall." - Our Lady of the Roses, November 1, 1985

DOCTORS
"Doctors now are profaning their profession, those who have given themselves over to destroying human life in abortions." - Jesus, June 6, 1987

FOULEST OF DEEDS
"Our hearts are torn because of the wanton murder of the young by evil man. Abortion, My children, is murder, the most foulest of deeds, that is punishable by death! And what is worse than death of the soul?
"I say unto you, as your Mother, that any man or woman who performs or takes part of this abomination of the murder of the unborn shall be given a heavy penance upon earth, or if this penance is not given upon earth, that person found guilty in the eyes of his God shall suffer eternal damnation in the fires of hell." - Our Lady, December 28, 1976

DESTROYED
"All who become part of or condone abortion, the murder of the young, shall be destroyed!" - Jesus, June 2, 1979

HUMAN LIFE IS SACRED
"The Eternal Father command that you stop these murders at once! You will not destroy the lives of the unborn. Human life is sacred in the eyes of your God. No man has the right to destroy a life. The Father, He sends this life to you, and only He will decide when it will return back to the Kingdom.
"Do not, My children, be deceived by the words of the evil ones about you who cry to you of no space left for man. There is space, for My Father has a plan for every life He sends." - Our Lady, August 5, 1971

WILL NEVER BE CONDONED
"You will remember, My children and My child, to guard the young. Your clergy have fallen into darkness. Abortion will never be condoned. But We must have others who fervently will go forward and bring out to the minds of those who have actually seduced the country and the children--bring them the knowledge of Heaven, hell and purgatory. Then they will not have free license to sin." - Our Lady, May 28, 1983

GOVERNMENT
"For that one reason among many, the United States will suffer unless there is placed into your government a group that fears the Lord if they cannot love the Lord. They will fear Him and find measures to stop the slaughter of the unborn." - Our Lady, April 14, 1984

NUNS
"That is what makes My heart ache, My child. That is one of the reasons Theresa is crying constantly when she looks into the convents and sees what is going on. Many now believe in abortion, the murders of the children; and many have committed this act upon themselves." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

SIXTY MILLION
"I say this for this reason: the Eternal Father is much disturbed at the numbers of abortions being committed throughout your country and the world. These numbers go upwards to fifty to sixty million in one year throughout the world." - Our Lady, June 18, 1986

TREATED AS GARBAGE
"O My child, My tears fall upon you all when I see all of the innocent little babies being slaughtered . . . cast into garbage pails like nothing but dirt and scum. They are living human beings! And all murderers shall get their just recompense." - Our Lady, March 18, 1983

BOMBS IN THE UNITED STATES
"These interlopers upon the serenity of the United States have dark skins.... With their plans there will be bombs placed in strategic places and many shall die at the hands of these ruffians....
"One big reason for permitting this disaster in New York would be the abortion mills throughout the city and the country." - Jesus, October 1, 1988

HOLY SPIRIT
"At the time of conception, the Holy Spirit makes the child, and the breath of the Almighty gives it life." - Our Lady, June 18, 1991

LIMBO
"And what, My children, are We going to do with all the aborted babies? O My child, I know you feel as I do, for I can see the great distress on your face. What are We going to do, My child? Do you understand when they come to Us, they must go to Limbo? They are in Heaven, a happy place, but they cannot see God." - Our Lady, October 2, 1987

SORROWFULLY
"Sorrowfully, the penance that is to come upon the world for the murders of the unborn shall be a chastisement far greater in severity than man has ever witnessed in the past nor ever shall pass through again. Your world is plunging into a deep chasm of suffering and destruction." - Our Lady, May 20, 1978

OATH
"Your once loyal to the oath of a doctor, your once loyal doctors are now butchers! For money they kill the young!" - Our Lady, February 10, 1978

WOE TO THE WOMAN
"Know, My child, this simple lesson, that in these days of the latter times, women will seek to cast off their role as mother and a woman. Women will cast it off under the direction of satan, and murder her children. Woe to the woman who does not repent of this vile abomination! She has walked the road to eternal damnation and hell. Repent, O woman, or forever be lost!" - Our Lady, March 18, 1975

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"As disciples of the latter days, My children, much shall be asked of you, but I assure you: all that you give in faith and charity shall be returned to you threefold." - Jesus, June 1, 1978

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