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New York Times:
Judge Alito Proves a Powerful Match for Senate Questioners  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - If Senate Democrats had set out to portray Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. as extreme on issues ranging from abortion to government surveillance of citizens, they ran up against an elusive target on Tuesday …
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Elisabeth Bumiller / New York Times:
But Enough About You, Judge; Let's Hear What I Have to Say  —  WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 - The Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. were supposed to be about the judge, but on Tuesday it sometimes seemed as though somebody forgot to tell the senators on the Judiciary Committee.
Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Alito Replies Don't Rock Status Quo  —  On his first day of questioning from senators, Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr. tried to send a reassuring message: The country may be at war, but Americans' personal privacy and civil liberties will be safe with me.
Marcia Davis / Washington Post:
For Democrats, A Most Tender Roast of Alito  —  It was beginning to look as if the Democrats had shown up to a knife fight without a knife yesterday.  —  It was beginning to look as if they'd just been woofing when it came to the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr …
ACLU:
Group Cites Rising Concerns Over Unchecked Executive Power and Alito's Troubling Civil Liberties Record  —  NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union announced today that it will oppose the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to replace Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the United States Supreme Court.
NY Daily News:
Dems fumble, Alito scores
Justin Bank / FactCheck.org:
Anti-Alito Ad Uses Selective Quotes
Reuters:
Alito: No president above law
Discussion: Ace of Spades HQ
Washington Post:
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing …
New York Times:
Fairness in the Alito Hearings
Discussion: AMERICAN DIGEST and TigerHawk
Jesse J. Holland / Associated Press:   Senators Consider Alito's Record, Judgment
Washington Post:
U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing …
Discussion: The Mahablog
David Stout / New York Times:
Presidential Power Has Limits, Alito Tells Senators
Discussion: MSNBC
Jay / Stop The ACLU:
ACLU Announces Opposition to Alito Nomination
Media Matters for America:   Toobin falsely claimed Alito was in majority …
Brian Ross / ABCNEWS:
NSA Whistleblower Alleges Illegal Spying  —  Former Employee Admits to Being a New York Times Source  —  Jan 10, 2006 — Russell Tice, a longtime insider at the National Security Agency, is now a whistleblower the agency would like to keep quiet.  —  For 20 years, Tice worked in the shadows …
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Dan Eggen / Washington Post:
Probe Set In NSA Bugging  —  The National Security Agency's inspector general has opened an investigation into eavesdropping without warrants in the United States by the agency authorized by President Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, according to a letter released late yesterday.
Washington Post:
Differing Views on Terrorism  —  Americans Divided on Eavesdropping Program, Poll Finds  —  Americans overwhelmingly support aggressive government pursuit of terrorist threats, even if it may infringe on personal privacy, but they divide sharply along partisan lines over the legitimacy …
CNN:
Poll finds U.S. split over eavesdropping
Discussion: Decision '08
Jonathan Weisman / Washington Post:
Lobbying Colors GOP Leadership Contest  —  Rivals for DeLay Post No Strangers to K St.  —  In years past, when the House recessed for its winter break, Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) decamped for warmer climates and a sailing trip to the Caribbean with some of the city's top lobbyists …
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Suzanne Gamboa / Associated Press:
DeLay tried to force closure of Indian-owned casino  —  WASHINGTON — Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay tried to pressure the Bush administration into shutting down an Indian-owned casino that lobbyist Jack Abramoff wanted closed — shortly after a tribal client of Abramoff's donated …
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Washington Post:
Barry Tested Positive for Cocaine Use In the Fall  —  D.C. Council member Marion Barry tested positive for cocaine use in the fall in a drug test ordered by a court after he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor tax charges, according to two sources familiar with Barry's case.
Henry Weinstein / Los Angeles Times:
1st Suit in State to Attack 'Intelligent Design' Filed  —  A group of parents in the small Tehachapi mountain community of Lebec on Tuesday filed the first lawsuit challenging the teaching of "intelligent design" in a California public school.  —  The suit targets what appears …
Associated Press:
Israel pulls plug on Pat Robertson deal  —  Officials angry over evangelical leader's comments about Sharon's stroke  —  JERUSALEM - Israel won't do business with Pat Robertson after the evangelical leader suggested Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's massive stroke was divine punishment …
Discussion: RuminateThis
Tom Peyer / Slate:
360 Degrees of Anderson Cooper  —  What will he feel next?  —  THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT.  THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.  —  ANNOUNCER: Shock.  Grief.  Outrage.  Glee.  —  One year after a devastating tsunami, four months after the fury of Katrina …

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