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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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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.
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.
Tom Curry / MSNBC:
Specter goes to bat for high court nominee — Judiciary Committee chairman sends strong signals that he'll help Alito — WASHINGTON - Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., sent strong signals Monday that he would use all his clout to help federal appeals court …
Ann Althouse / New York Times: Separated at the Bench — NO sooner did we learn that President Bush …
David Espo / Associated Press:Bush Nominates Alito for Supreme Court
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Linda Greenhouse / New York Times:Abortion Case May Be Central in Confirmation
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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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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 …
Hindrocket / Power Line:
HOW ABOUT THAT "STRIP SEARCH" DECISION? — Other than the Casey spousal notification case, the Samuel Alito opinion I've heard the most criticism of is his dissent in Doe v. Groody, where, it is said, Alito voted to authorize a strip search of a ten-year-old girl in the course of executing a search warrant.
Josh White / Washington Post:
Guantanamo Desperation Seen in Suicide Attempts — Jumah Dossari had to visit the restroom, so the detainee made a quick joke with his American lawyer before military police guards escorted him to a nearby cell with a toilet. The U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba …
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.
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:
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.
Michelle Malkin:
UNHINGED: THE MUGSHOT COLLECTION — Today's the official launch date for my new book, Unhinged: Exposing Liberals Gone Wild: — I had fun with this one (wait 'til you see the back cover) and think you'll enjoy it—or, if you're on the other side of the aisle, you'll enjoy hating it.
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CBS' Mary Mapes, in 'Vanity Fair,' Defends Role in 'RatherGate' — NEW YORK In the upcoming December issue of Vanity Fair, Mary Mapes, the CBS News producer who lost her job after the disputed "60 Minutes II" Bush/National Guard report, writes, "I must answer the bloggers, the babblers and blabbers …
