1971 Paper by Judge Alito Suports Privacy Protections
As a senior at Princeton University, Samuel A. Alito Jr., nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court, chaired an undergraduate task force that recommended the decriminalization of sodomy, accused the CIA and the FBI of invading the privacy of citizens, and said discrimination against gays in hiring ''should be forbidden." The report, issued in 1971 by Alito and 16 other Princeton students, provides a glimpse of a more liberal Alito than the jurist is now perceived.
Alito writing backed privacy, gay rights, Boston Globe, November 2, 2005.
