Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito's record indicates that on some of the most contentious issues that came before the high court, he has been to the right of the centrist swing voter he would replace - Sandra Day O'Connor.
According to a report in today's Washington Post, as a result, legal analysts saw the Alito appointment Monday as a bid by President Bush to tilt the court, currently evenly divided between left and right, in a conservative direction.
O'Connor "has been a moderating voice on critical civil liberties issues ranging from race to religion to reproductive freedom," Steven R. Shapiro, national legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, told the Post. "Judge Alito's nomination . . . therefore calls into question the court's delicate balance that Justice O'Connor has helped to shape and preserve."
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