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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 …
Rude One / The Rude Pundit:Samuel Alito, Another Motherf**ker For America:
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Think Progress:Samuel Alito's America
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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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New York Times:
After a Career of Quiet Focus, Alito Is Leaving the Background — WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 - One weekend in 1986, two young lawyers working for Samuel A. Alito Jr., then a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department, faced a looming deadline for a legal analysis and realized they would have to work all night to get it done.
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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 …
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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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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Time Reporter Says He Learned Agent's Identity From Rove — Matthew Cooper Says I. Lewis Libby Confirmed Information — Oct. 31 2005 — One of the reporters at the center of the investigation into the leak of the identity of an undercover CIA officer, says he first learned the agent's name …
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Daily Kos:
Big-Time Postal Alert. Cover Ears Now. — Nice. Drudge et al are hyping the "racist" meme to defend Alito from attacks on his ultra-far-right philosophies. … Oh boy. You've just stepped in it now, s**theads. This one's personal — screw everything else written on this site …
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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 …
Terry / Nitpicker:
The Soul of Victor Davis Hanson — Victor Davis Hanson writes today that, yes, 2000 soldiers have died in Iraq, but A) that's really not that many; B) Americans only care about that number because we're soft and; C) it's all the media's fault. — I admire some of Hanson's earlier books.
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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 …
Arianna Huffington / The Huffington Post:
The Times Gives Tim Russert a Big, Wet Kiss — After reading today's New York Times story on Tim Russert, I had to go back and check the byline twice to make sure that the piece had really been written by Todd Purdum and not the NBC publicity department. — Ostensibly a story about Russert's role …
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