Alito will turn the clock back, given the chance:

In the New York Times yesterday, there was a report on Alito's earlier writings. It also mentioned this: (emp add)

Judge Alito wrote that he was "a life-long registered Republican" who had contributed to Republican candidates as well as to the National Conservative Political Action Committee, a pillar of the political movement that grew out of the Goldwater campaign.

He wrote that he was also a member of Concerned Alumni of Princeton. Formed in 1972 to oppose the admission of women to the university, the group moved on to criticize the school's minority admissions, permissive social norms, and religious nondenominational while supporting the selective admission's policies of private student clubs affiliated with the school.

If you didn't know it, you might think that the Concerned Alumni of Princeton was formed to oppose the introduction of women to the university. But that's not the case. From Wikipedia:

In 1969, Princeton University first admitted women as undergraduates.

So the CAoP wanted to undo a policy that was already in place for three years.

Alito was born in 1950; graduated from Princeton in 1972. When did he joing CAoP? We can't find out at the moment, so we can't be sure if he was part of the "return to the time when no women are on campus" movement. But you can bet that he's inclined to reverse already-in-place policies - because of his membership in a group dedicated to excatly that.

Again, some speculation: If he did join CAoP because of its stand on women, it sheds light on his subsequent ruling that women must inform their husbands about a pending abortion. This guy may very well believe that women are second-class citizens.

UPDATE: This joke is making the rounds:

"Q:" How many Concerned Alumni of Princeton does it take to change a light bulb?
"A:" Six - One to change it, and five to sit around and talk about how good the old one was.

posted by Quiddity at 11/16/2005 12:15:00 PM