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Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Bush Nominates Alito for Supreme Court — WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush nominated veteran judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court Monday, seeking to shift the judiciary to the right and mollify conservatives who derailed his previous pick. Ready-to-rumble Democrats said Alito …
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Ed Whelan / Bench Memos on National Review Online:
Alito on Spousal Notice — As noted here and in The Corner, the media appear already to be engaged in rampant misrepresentation of Judge Alito's 1991 opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part in the panel majority's ruling in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, 947 F.2d 682 (3rd Cir. 1991).
David Espo / Associated Press:
Bush Nominates Alito for Supreme Court — WASHINGTON - President Bush named Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court on Monday, hoping to usher in a historic new era of judicial conservatism while ending a Republican divide that doomed an earlier nomination.
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Casey as the Bat — Having finally tracked down and read Judge Alito's 3rd Circuit dissent in Planned Parenthood v Casey, I certainly hope that over the next several weeks pro-choice voters in Maine (Snowe, Collins) Rhode Island (Chafee) Ohio (Voinovich, DeWine) and the other haunts of …
Dahlia Lithwick / Slate:
Trick and Treat — Sammy Alito is the whole bag of goodies. — Listen to this story on NPR's Day to Day. — Well, boo. — It's magic. Almost as if the whole Harriet Miers debacle never happened, President Bush has rapidly retreated from his judicial preferences of last month.
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Kash / Angry Bear:
Family Values — The opinion of Bush's newest nomination to the Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, regarding the abortion issue will undoubtedly receive a flood of attention in coming weeks. But Alito's opinion regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), signed into law in 1993 by Bill Clinton …
Think Progress:
Samuel Alito's America — CNN reports that "President Bush will nominate 3rd Circuit Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito for the U.S. Supreme Court." Who is Samuel Alito? ThinkProgress has the facts: — ALITO WOULD OVERTURN ROE V. WADE: In his dissenting opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey …
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Rude One / The Rude Pundit:
Samuel Alito, Another Motherf**ker For America: — Remember that it's a rule that holds fast and true: if George W. Bush gets to appoint someone to a position, that person will be a motherf**ker. John Roberts, motherf**ker; John Bolton, motherf**ker; John Negroponte, motherf**ker; Michael Brown, motherf**ker and little bitch.
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The Heretik:
BUSH'S SECOND BEST: ALITO — BUSH HEADS TOWARD COLLISION with Democrats on new Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito. Bush's second choice after Harriet Miers rejected herself may not be choice enough for Democrats. Bush now steers to the hard right with more rough water. [story] [Bush statement]
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Eric / Is That Legal?:White House Talking Points on Alito
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Jeremy / What Now?:
Thank God! — Samuel Alito is an absolutely excellent choice for the Supreme Court. In the immediate aftermath of his nomination, I suggest every person who thinks Alito is an improvement over Miers should call the Republican National Committee and donate and tell the person you talk …
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Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:Confirm Judge Alito
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Pejman Yousefzadeh / RedState.org:The Anti-Miers — Judge Samuel Alito is everything that Harriet Miers is not.
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
ABORTION AND SPOUSAL NOTIFICATION: As several people point out, that's going to be an issue with regard to Alito. I'm not sure what I think about this issue, but looking at the Pennsylvania statute I notice a lot of exceptions, one of which is this: "Her spouse is not the father of the child."
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / Bench Memos on National …:Abortion — Already this morning, I've heard a lefty …
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Christian Burset / dailyprincetonian.com:
Alito '72 nominated for Supreme Court seat — Classmates describe judge as intelligent, reserved with dry sense of humor — Samuel Alito '72, an experienced appeals court judge and New Jersey native, was nominated this morning by President Bush to replace Sandra Day O'Connor as an associate justice on the Supreme Court.
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Karl Rove / White House:
Press Briefing by Scott McClellan — MR. MCCLELLAN: Good afternoon, everyone. I want to update you on the President's schedule, first of all. The President is meeting right about now with Burmese activist Charm Tong, a 23-year-old woman who has dedicated her life to helping those who suffer under …
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Reuters:
Fourth night of riots in Paris — BOBIGNY, France (Reuters) — Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday defended his tough crime policies against claims they helped increase tension after a fourth night of rioting in a Paris suburb in which tear gas was fired into a mosque.
