The day “Coretta Scott King dies”:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5180053 is the same day “Samuel Alito”:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito is confirmed to the Supreme Court. The sad irony of this juxtaposition would be too much to bear if we did not already suffer from outrage fatigue. This is par for the course.
How would the Civil Rights movement have fared if Alito were on the High Court at the time? How would any of the seminal cases that bought this country closer to its founding ideals of justice and equality for all have turned out were he the one to cast the deciding vote? Would Brown vs. Board of Education still have been unanimous?
Given his track record, his membership in the “Federalist society”:http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0003.landay.html and the expectation of a thirty-year term as Justice, would it be hyperbole to call this the day -the experiment began to unravel- America started going backwards?
