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Officials: Bush to nominate Alito to high court — Miers helps finalize choice to replace her as Supreme Court pick — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush will nominate 3rd Circuit Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito for the U.S. Supreme Court, sources told CNN on Monday.
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Washington Post:
Bush Selects Alito for Supreme Court — President Bush today will name appeals court Judge Samuel A. Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a source close to the White House. Alito, 55, serves on the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:
Parties Set Stage for Showdown on Court Choice — WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 - With the announcement of a new Supreme Court nominee expected as early as Monday, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, warned President Bush on Sunday not to pick one of the candidates …
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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 …
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Bush to Nominate Alito to Supreme Court — WASHINGTON - President Bush, stung by the rejection of his first choice, will nominate Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, selecting a conservative federal judge to replace retiring Justice — " /> Sandra Day O'Connor, a moderate.
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Peter Baker / Washington Post:
President Poised to Pick Court Nominee — Allies on Right Are Consulted on Conservative Judges — President Bush appears poised to announce a new Supreme Court nomination today, moving quickly after a weekend of consultations to put forward a replacement for the ill-fated choice …
New York Times:
Bush Nominates Conservative Judge for Supreme Court — President Bush named Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., who currently serves on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, as the new Supreme Court nominee today, four days after his previous choice withdrew her nomination.
Michelle Malkin:IT'S SAMUEL ALITO
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
THE BIG LOSER in the Libby affair, it would seem to me, is the CIA. At least it will be if anyone pays attention. — Consider: Assuming that Valerie Plame was some sort of genuinely covert operative — something that's not actually quite clear from the indictment — the chain …
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Todd S. Purdum / New York Times:
THE JOURNALIST — WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 - On any given Sunday, the cream of Washington officialdom presents itself for confession before Tim Russert, a big, bluff lawyer-turned-journalist who may be the capital's most intimidating interlocutor outside a courtroom or Congress.
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James Glanz / New York Times:
Funds Fade, Deaths Rise and Iraq Rebuilding Is Spotty — As the money runs out on the $30 billion American-financed reconstruction of Iraq, the officials in charge cannot say how many planned projects they will complete, and there is no clear source for hundreds of millions of dollars …
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
ONE OF THE THINGS I'VE NOTICED in the Judy Miller / Scooter Libby coverage is the development of a new history that's very convenient for a lot of the people peddling it. The new story is that: — 1. We only went to war because of WMDs — that was the only reason ever given. — 2. Bush lied about those.
New York Times:
U.N. Is Expected to Pass Measure Pressuring Syria — UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 30 - Security Council diplomats worked out final details on Sunday on a tough resolution against Syria, an action that will forcefully step up international pressure on the country's embattled president, Bashar al-Assad …
Scott Shane / New York Times:
Doubts Cast on Vietnam Incident, but Secret Study Stays Classified — WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 - The National Security Agency has kept secret since 2001 a finding by an agency historian that during the Tonkin Gulf episode, which helped precipitate the Vietnam War, N.S.A. officers deliberately …
