Alito's America

I got a nicely-timed email today from someone at Campus Progress who appreciated an earlier post of mine on Samuel Alito, and asked me to take a look at Alito's America, an impressive-looking site that presages what would happen if the Supreme Court included ScAlito on the bench.

Now, I have no idea if she read my post at all, but this was certainly a good tactic to drive me over to their site. It does give a good impression of what this hardcore conservative would do to chip away at long-established, basic rights of citizens in this country. A series of "future headlines" show what could happen in the areas of the environment, privacy, guns, workplace safety, and choice. They didn't mention that in Alito's America, it's cool to shoot an unarmed thief in the back of the head who runs away after a $10 burglary. But what's there is pretty devastating.

There's also a wealth of documentary information about ScAlito, a call to action (petition, online resources), a video which I assume they want to air as an ad, and a list of campus events about the cause. It's nicely put together, and the splogging (spam-blogging of like-minded constituents) worked, at least in this case. Sites and information gathering like this have put the Alito confirmation in some doubt. Of course, conservatives swear that he deserves an up-or-down vote because his name isn't Harriet Miers. But the filibuster looms large as a possibility, and with every revelation about this guy, it gets more and more worrisome to think about life in Alito's America.