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Alito's College Writing Backed 'Gay Rights'
While attending Princeton University, Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito chaired a student task force that recommended decriminalizing sodomy, accused the CIA and FBI of invading citizens’ privacy and said discrimination against gays in hiring should be forbidden. A report issued by the 17-student task force in 1971, uncovered by the Boston Globe, resulted from an assignment to study the "boundaries of privacy in American society.” And it provided "a glimpse of a more liberal Alito than the jurist is now perceived,” according to the Globe. In a foreword to the report, Alito wrote: "We sense a great threat to privacy in modern America. We all believe that privacy is too often sacrificed to other values; we all believe that the threat to privacy is steadily and rapidly mounting; we all believe that action must be taken on many fronts now to preserve privacy.”
Story Continues Below The report criticized government surveillance of what it called "mild dissenters on the war in Vietnam.” Alito, then a senior student at Princeton, had been chosen to advise juniors writing the report and to write an introduction explaining their recommendations, according to classmate Jeffrey G. Weil, who said he couldn’t remember if Alito personally agreed with the recommendations. Richard H. Fallon, a professor at Harvard Law School, cautioned against reading too much into the views expressed in the report: "From the fact that someone thinks legislators ought to forbid discrimination, it does not follow that the person would necessarily think that the Supreme Court of the United States ought to hold that the Constitution forbids discrimination against gays.”
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