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Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Issues and (Possible) Answers: A Primer on the Alito Hearings — WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 - When Judge John G. Roberts Jr. appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee in September for hearings on his nomination to the Supreme Court, all of the participants were largely improvising.
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Charles Babington / Washington Post:
Democrats Ready to Go After Alito — High Court Nominee's Memos Opposing Abortion Likely to Be Focal Points at Hearings — Senate Democrats are expected to attack Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. on multiple fronts at the confirmation hearing that opens at noon today …
Richard Morin / Washington Post:
Majority of Americans Favor Alito Nomination — Most Expect Nominee Wouldn't Vote to Strike Down Roe v. Wade — A majority of Americans favor the confirmation of federal appeals court judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court and an even larger proportion believe Alito would not vote …
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Steve Bainbridge / ProfessorBainbridge.com:
Alito: What the NY Times Editorial Didn't Tell You — The NY Times editorial Judging Samuel Alito didn't say much for the self-professed paper of record's ability to put claims in context. Let's help them out. The NY Times says: … Here's what the NY Times didn't tell you:
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:
Senate Hearings to Begin for Samuel Alito — WASHINGTON (AP) - After months of preparation, Samuel Alito will face close questioning by senators to determine his fitness to be the nation's 110th Supreme Court justice. — Alito, a conservative, 15-year member of the federal appeals court in Philadelphia …
Washington Post:
Questioning Judge Alito — MUCH RIDES on the Senate hearings that begin today on the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to serve on the Supreme Court. Judge Alito is not well known in Washington, having spent the past 15 years on an appellate court elsewhere.
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Hastert Moves to Tighten Rules on Lobbyists — With Rep. Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) formally removed from congressional leadership, House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) took the next step yesterday in Republican efforts to distance the party from a growing corruption scandal …
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Los Angeles Times:
A Donor Who Had Big Allies — DeLay and two others helped put the brakes on a federal probe of a businessman. Evidence was published in the Congressional Record. — WASHINGTON — In a case that echoes the Jack Abramoff influence-peddling scandal, two Northern California Republican congressmen used …
Daniela Deane / Washington Post:
Cheney Briefly Hospitalized Monday Morning — Vice President Dick Cheney went to George Washington University Hospital in the middle of night Monday experiencing shortness of breath, which doctors found was unrelated to his recurring heart problems, a White House statement said.
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Nedra Pickler / Associated Press:
Cheney Hospitalized, Then Released — WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney was taken to George Washington Hospital early Monday experiencing shortness of breath, a spokeswoman said. He was released four and a half hours later. — Cheney spokeswoman Lea Anne McBride said Cheney was taken …
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Richard A. Oppel Jr / New York Times:
12 Feared Dead as Army Copter Crashes in Iraq — BAGHDAD, Iraq, Jan. 8 - Twelve Americans were believed to have been killed late on Saturday night when an Army UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter crashed in northern Iraq between the restive cities of Tal Afar and Mosul.
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National Review:
One Moment in Time — There's an old Chinese theory according to which the best way to understand historical events is not to reconstruct the sequence of "causes" by which the events were "produced," but rather to look at the unique characteristics of the moment in which the events occurred.
Paul Caron / TaxProf Blog:
Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction? — Here is a report on Friday's panel at the AALS annual meeting sponsored by the Section on Scholarship on Blogging: Scholarship or Distraction? The program described the session as follows: … After moderator Dennis M. Patterson (Rutgers-Camden) …
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Ian James / Associated Press:
In Caracas, Belafonte Calls Bush Terrorist — Belafonte Calls Bush 'Greatest Terrorist in World,' Praises Chavez in Venezuela — CARACAS, Venezuela Jan 8, 2006 — The American singer and activist Harry Belafonte called President Bush "the greatest terrorist in the world" …
Mary Williams Walsh / New York Times:
More Companies Ending Promises for Retirement — The death knell for the traditional company pension has been tolling for some time now. Companies in ailing industries like steel, airlines and auto parts have thrown themselves into bankruptcy and turned over their ruined pension plans to the federal government.
Washington Post:
N.Y. Times Editor-Reporter Dies After Attack in NW — David E. Rosenbaum, a longtime editor and reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times, died yesterday after being beaten and robbed Friday night near his home in upper Northwest Washington. — Rosenbaum, 63 …
Time:
How to Stay Out of Power — Why liberal democrats are playing too fast and too loose with issues of war and peace — House minority leader Nancy Pelosi, the California Democrat, engaged in a small but cheesy bit of deception last week. She released a letter, which quickly found …
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