Internet Ads Back Alito on Strip-Search Case

As part of what they are calling "law enforcement week," conservative backers of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. began circulating an Internet advertisement on Tuesday defending the judge's argument that the police were justified in strip-searching the young daughter of a man suspected of dealing drugs.

The advertisement is part of a broad effort by a coalition of conservative organizations to spotlight Judge Alito's record on law-and-order issues. The groups are trumpeting the recent decision by the Fraternal Order of Police, the nation's largest police union, to endorse Judge Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court and are seeking signatures from former attorneys general who support his confirmation.

As of Tuesday afternoon, John Ashcroft, the former attorney general under President Bush, and Griffin B. Bell, attorney general under President Jimmy Carter, had agreed to sign the letter, which will praise Judge Alito for his public service, said Keith Appel, a spokesman for the coalition.

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The case was the subject of a recent television advertisement by liberal advocacy groups. The liberal advertisement asserted that Judge Alito "voted to approve the strip-search of a 10-year-old girl." The conservative advertisement attacks the "left-wing extremists" who oppose Judge Alito, saying they "may have found new allies, drug dealers who hide their drugs on children."




http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/14/politics/politicsspecial1/14alito.html

They show that ad on The Daily Show tonight, it's by some Catholic group I think.

Un-real.

so what's the difference if they get strip searched for their daddy's crimes? :sarcasm: