Friend of Scalito Admits Scalito Thinks Roe Wrong

Think Progress has the story of a strange day at the college newspaper the Princetonian.

First, the paper printed:

[Alito’s senior thesis adviser Walter] Murphy said he and Alito agree that the 1973 landmark abortion-rights case Roe v. Wade was wrongly decided.

Later, they allowed Murphy to backtrack with this "clarification":

The point I was trying to make was that, even if Sam thought that Roe was wrong, he would not necessarily vote to overturn it.

All fine and good, but the paper did not have the courage to admit in print what it admitted to Think Progress:

Based on a review of our transcript, Professor Murphy did not tell us that even if Judge Alito believed Roe to be wrongly decided, he would not necessarily vote to overturn it. Though we’re not sure why it was suggested that this was said in the interview, we’re reluctant to draw any conclusions. That said, had the transcript reflected the assertion that Judge Alito would be unlikely to overturn Roe, we would most certainly have included the point in the story, given the importance of this claim.

Anybody who believes all this talk about "respect for precedent" and "not necessarily voting to overturn Roe" means Scalito won't seek to curtail individual freedoms protected by the constitutional right of privacy is either being purposefully stupid or doesn't have the mental capability to be sitting in the Senate.