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Charles Hurt / Washington Times:
Both parties prepared for 'Armageddon' fight — Senate Democrats and Republicans — along with interest groups both for and against Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s Supreme Court nomination — fell into formation yesterday to begin the battle they've been expecting for more than a decade.
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New York Times:
Another Lost Opportunity — The nomination of Samuel Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court raises a lot of questions about the judge's attitudes toward federalism, privacy and civil rights. But it has already answered one big question about President Bush. Anyone wondering whether …
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Tom Curry / MSNBC:Specter goes to bat for high court nominee
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:Alito Leans Right Where O'Connor Swung Left
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Ann Althouse / New York Times:Separated at the Bench — NO sooner did we learn that President Bush …
David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:Conservatives Scrambling to Prepare for a Tough Fight
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New York Times:After a Career of Quiet Focus, Alito Is Leaving the Background
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James Joyner / » Outside The Beltway:Samuel Alito: Modest, Brilliant, and Nice
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Liz Sidoti / Associated Press:
Democrats Force Closed Meeting on Iraq — Democrats forced the Republican-controlled Senate into an unusual closed session Tuesday, demanding answers about intelligence that led to the Iraq war. Republicans derided the move as a political stunt. — In a speech on the Senate floor …
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Kevin Drum / The Washington Monthly:
CLOSED SESSION....Huh? Harry Reid has shut down the Senate by invoking Rule 21 and placing the Senate into closed session to discuss the intelligence that led to war. What's up with that? — Frist is pissed. Really pissed. Reid did this without warning him.
E. J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
What the 'Shield' Covered Up — Has anyone noticed that the coverup worked? — In his impressive presentation of the indictment of Lewis "Scooter" Libby last week, Patrick Fitzgerald expressed the wish that witnesses had testified when subpoenas were issued in August 2004, and …
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Thomas Oliphant / Boston Globe:
The coverup worked — NO ONE really noticed, but Patrick Fitzgerald made an unassailable point last week about the timing of the indictment that his CIA leak investigation has produced so far. — ''I would have wanted nothing better," he said, ''that when the subpoenas were issued in August of 2004 …
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 …
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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.
Matthew Yglesias / TAPPED:
NUCLEAR OPTION REDUX. This morning on NPR there was a segment about the "Gang of 14" and the nuclear option in the context of Sam Alito. Since this seems likely to be a subject of debate, it's worth re-iterating some arguments from the first time around. — The filibuster is bad.
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Washington Post:
Trial Could Pit Libby's Interests Against Bush's — Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, is expected to plead not guilty to charges that he lied and obstructed justice in the CIA leak probe when he is arraigned Thursday, setting the stage for a possible courtroom fight …
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rawstory.com:
Reid takes Senate into closed session over Iraq intelligence — RAW STORY — The Senate's Democratic leader Harry Reid (D-NV) unexpectedly pulled the Senate into secret session Tuesday afternoon in order to have closed discussion of Iraq intelligence, RAW STORY has learned.
Gateway Pundit:
Before Novak, The Joe Wilson Speech that Made Clear His Agenda — ** The June 2003 Joe Wilson Speech You Are Not Supposed to Hear! ONE MONTH BEFORE ROBERT NOVAK WROTE HIS COLUMN, AMBASSADOR JOSEPH WILSON LAID OUT HIS AGENDA AGAINST THE US ADMINISTRATION AND ISRAEL AT THE LEFTIST 2003 IRAQ FORUM CONFERENCE,
Cass Sunstein / Washington Post:
On the Contrary — As an appeals court judge, Samuel Alito has compiled a massive record that includes more than 240 opinions. Of these, the most illuminating may well be his 41 dissents — opinions that he has written by himself, rejecting the views of his colleagues.
Steven Greenhouse / New York Times:
Labor Dept. Is Rebuked Over Pact With Wal-Mart — The Labor Department's inspector general strongly criticized department officials yesterday for "serious breakdowns" in procedures involving an agreement promising Wal-Mart Stores 15 days' notice before labor investigators would inspect its stores for child labor violations.
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Kristen Lombardi / villagevoice.com:
Cindy Sheehan for President … Cindy Sheehan, a/k/a the "peace mom," probably never intended to sound like a candidate, but she did. Sheehan, the activist who became the face of anti-war sentiment after camping outside President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas, last summer …
Knight Ridder:
Cheney's new security adviser linked to bogus information on Iraq — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney replaced I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby as his national security adviser on Monday with an aide identified by a former Iraqi exile group as the White House official to whom it fed information on Iraq that turned out to be erroneous.
