From The Huffington Post
By Cenk Uygur

We are witnessing a rare event. The Supreme Court confirmation hearing of Sam Alito will test the very core of our country. Our republic is at stake. And I am very afraid that only a handful of people even realize it.

Usually, the Supreme Court confirmation process revolves around a carefully choreographed dance on abortion.

The right bobs, the left jabs. The left Roes, the right throes. The right hides, the left chides. The left hunts, the right punts.

But this time it’s not about Roe!

First, to dispense with the abortion issue, let me tell you something everyone knows – Alito will vote to overturn Roe. This is what Alito wrote earlier in his career: “I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government has argued in the Supreme Court that … the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion.”

If you believe the man who wrote that will vote to uphold Roe, your powers of self-delusion are nearly limitless.

But I don’t care. Because there’s a much bigger fish in these waters. Roe is about one right, but Alito isn’t going after just one right. He’s going for “the whole thing.”

The real constitutional issue to be decided in these hearings is the power of the executive.

Sam Alito believes the executive has the power to ignore laws he does not agree with. That is not an exaggeration. I wish it were.

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