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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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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
As Democrats Lead Opposition, GOP Moderates May Control Vote — Senate Democrats will lead the opposition to Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination, but a handful of Republican moderates could ultimately decide its outcome, several analysts and lawmakers said yesterday.
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 …
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.
Pam Spaulding / Pandagon:'Scalito': The AmTaliban butters Bush's bread
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John Cole / Balloon Juice:Scalito It Is — Bush nominates Samuel Alito, Jr. …
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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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Krempasky / RedState.org:
Sliming Alito - and badly, at that. — Tim Chapman over at Townhall has the full text of the Democratic smear document on Alito. — Now, this is interesting - because even Tip O'Neil's flack (Chris Matthews) thinks it's not only bad politics - it's just offensive. … Well Chris, I agree.
shadowtv.com:
ShadowTV Viewer — . it begins. Wastey wait for that, more o n the nomination of samuel alito is chris matthews. Of course, conservatives extremely happy. >> Right. >> Let's cut to the chase. Do you think we'll see a filibuster? >> I don't know.
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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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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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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 …
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).
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volokh.com:
Amazing Recycling Factoid … If they can come up with some way to "recycle" the water that I consume and the sewage that I produce each day, then I must admit that really would be amazing. I'd just hate to be the guy who gets the recycled versions... A FEW THOUGHTS ON ALITO: A few thoughts on Alito:
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 …
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.
Christopher Hitchens / Opinion Journal:
What Goes Around, Comes Around — The Plame kerfuffle has made hypocrites of just about everyone. — The Republicans who drafted and proposed the Intelligence Identities Protection Act in the early days of the Reagan administration, in a vain attempt to end the career of CIA defector Philip Agee …
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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 …
