Alito Believes Court Has Gone Too Far In Church-State Separation

According to today's New York Times, Senators who have spoken with Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. say that Alito believes the Supreme Court may have gone too far in its rulings on separation of church and state. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican on the Judiciary Committee, said that Thursday in a private meeting Judge Alito expressed empathy for "the impression that the court's decisions were incoherent in this area of the law in a way that really gives the impression of hostility to religious speech and religious expression."