WASHINGTON – Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday announced she would vote against Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, blasting the top court pick for his “radical ideology.”
Clinton, who graduated from Yale law school two years before Alito in 1973, said in a speech on the Senate floor that abortion “should be rare, but it should be legal” and called it a “tragic choice” made by “a woman, her doctor and her faith in God.”
It is a view “Judge Alito does not share,” Clinton said.
“And I think we can be certain that . . . he will intensify his campaign to roll back these important privacy rights.”
Clinton also warned “decades of progress will fall prey to his radical ideology.”
Alito, a federal appeals court judge, is expected to be confirmed this week to replace Sandra Day O’Connor.