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Bill Sammon / Washington Times:
Alito rejected abortion as a right — Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President Bush's Supreme Court nominee, wrote that "the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion" in a 1985 document obtained by The Washington Times. — "I personally believe very strongly" in this legal position …
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Alito on Abortion: Vindication for the Anti-Miers Crowd — The Washington Times dug up a 1985 job application submitted by Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito to then attorney general Ed Meese. In it, Alito stated: … Several observations: — I think this clearly vindicates those of us who led the anti-Miers fight.
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Sean McCabe / judicialnetwork.com:
1985 Alito statement that constitution does not protect abortion is widely held — Washington, D.C. Today's Washington Times reports that Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito stated in a 1985 memo that he was "particularly proud" of his contributions, as a lawyer working …
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
Hardly Seems Fair To Quote Them Now — I haven't found Ted Kennedy's floor speech prior to the October 2002 vote on the war resolution, but here he is at SAIS on Sept 27, 2002. Early laugh lines include these: … and … Only later did Kennedy realize what a liar Bush was, and how important it was to question his motives.
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New Yorker:
SCOTUS WATCH — In the months since Sandra Day O'Connor announced her retirement, Americans have become obsessed with judge-watching. The new pastime practically eclipsed the World Series, with fans paying more attention to Harriet Miers's eye makeup than to Jermaine Dye's batting average.
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Article III Groupie / Underneath Their Robes:
Under Her Robe — Article III Groupie recently gave Jeffrey Toobin, the brilliant legal affairs writer at the New Yorker, a peek beneath her robe. Toobin now reports that one David B. Lat, a federal prosecutor in Newark, New Jersey, claims responsibility for this blog.
White House:
Setting the Record Straight: The Washington Post On Pre-War Intelligence — The Washington Post Implies That The Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) Was Superior To The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) Given To Congress. "But Bush does not share his most sensitive intelligence, such as the President's Daily Brief, with lawmakers.
Fred Hiatt / Washington Post:
The Politics of War — Adel Abdul Mahdi, Iraq's vice president, may seem a bit unfeeling as he assesses the ongoing violence in his country. It is very hard, he says — but better than during Saddam Hussein's day, when, Mahdi says, each year 30,000 Iraqis were executed or assassinated by the regime or killed in the dictator's wars.
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Andrew A. Green / Baltimore Sun:
Ehrlich bristles at Oreo skeptics … Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he is angry at "revisionism" from political opponents who question a much-repeated story about Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele being pelted with Oreos during a 2002 campaign debate in Baltimore.
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Incompetent On All Levels by digby Those of us w... Incompetent On All Levels — Those of us who've been writing about the torture regime for a long while already knew that the DOD had decided to use the SERE techniques to "interrogate" prisoners. This NY Times article reveals something about this I didn't know before —
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New York Times:
Unwavering Bush Ally Acts Quickly on Court Choices — WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 - When President Bush named Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. as his Supreme Court pick, it took Progress for America just 39 minutes to introduce a slick Web site and begin lobbying for his confirmation. And that was slow.
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David D. Kirkpatrick / New York Times:Liberal Coalition Is Making Plans to Take Fight Beyond Abortion
Jimmy Carter / Los Angeles Times:
This isn't the real America — IN RECENT YEARS, I have become increasingly concerned by a host of radical government policies that now threaten many basic principles espoused by all previous administrations, Democratic and Republican. — These include the rudimentary American commitment to peace …
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John / AMERICAblog:
Target digs itself a deeper hole in emergency contraceptive scandal — AMERICAblog reader, and fellow blogger, Joseph Hughes of Hughes for America, just sent me the latest response from Target about their growing emergency contraception scandal. — Full disclosure, I've worked as a consultant …
Washington Post:
Detainees Deserve Court Trials — As the Senate prepared to vote Thursday to abolish the writ of habeas corpus, Sens. Lindsey Graham and Jon Kyl were railing about lawyers like me. Filing lawsuits on behalf of the terrorists at Guantanamo Bay. Terrorists! Kyl must have said the word 30 times.
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Neil MacFarquhar / New York Times:
Heavy Hand of the Secret Police Impeding Reform in Arab World — AMMAN, Jordan, Nov. 13 - At a cultural festival last year, Sameer al-Qudah recited a poem of his depicting Arab rulers as a notch below pirates and highwaymen on the scale of honorable professions. Within days, Jordan's intelligence police summoned him.
