This is from Arlen Specter’s press conference, re: Judge Alito, this afternoon:

I start with his statement that he believes there is a right to privacy under the liberty clause of the United States Constitution. And he believes that the right applied to singles as well as married under the interpretation of Griswold v. Connecticut. And he says that he accepts Griswold v. Connecticut as good law.

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I raised with him a question about super precedents, which we took up in the hearings for Judge Roberts — Chief Justice Roberts — and the super-duper precedents which I added in on the basis of some 38 cases where the Supreme Court has had an opportunity to overrule Roe and has not done so.

… Judge Alito did not endorse super precedents or super-duper precedents, but did say that he viewed it as a sliding scale, and that the longer a decision was in effect and the more times that it had been reaffirmed by different courts, different justices appointed by different presidents, it had extra precedential value.

Yes on Griswold, no on Specter’s silly Con Law concepts.

This confirmation process is going to be, on the part of the Senators, the silliest in history, but Specter will vote for Alito. Otherwise, he loses his chairmanship. THAT, whether it is admitted or even spoken, is the bottom line.