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    • November 23, 2005 | Hilarious anti-Alito ad
    People for the American Way is not my favorite lefty interest group, at least when it comes to judicial nominations - they often strike me as shrill and as playing...

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    November 16, 2005 | Alito's explanations are getting worse
    Last week, the big story on the Alito Supreme Court nomination was his participation in a case involving Vanguard when he apparently told the Senate he wouldn't hear those cases,...

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    November 14, 2005 | Alito and choice
    So it turns out that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said, on a 1985 job application, that he didn't believe that the Constitution should protect a right to abortion. The...

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    November 11, 2005 | Alito's 1990 Senate questionnaire
    An emerging issue in the Alito Supreme Court nomination has been his participation in cases involving parties such as Vanguard (in which he had invested a substantial amount of money)...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (4)

    November 01, 2005 | It's official
    Alito will be confirmed. The stars are never wrong.

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    The Alito that MoveOn didn't mention
    This darned judge: Wrote an opinion prohibiting the use of any state-owned facilities for abortions, possibly right down to the public water supply - and in the process looked forward...

    By David | Read Article | Comments (6)

    October 31, 2005 | One liberal's positive view of Alito
    Katherine (Kate) Pringle is a partner in a New York law firm. She is also a progressive Democrat who was heavily involved in John Kerry's presidential campaign. And after she...

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    Lefties: hold your fire on Alito
    I have no position yet on what the Democrats should do about Judge Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court. But I spoke this morning to a lawyer whom I know...

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    Bush wants Alito confirmed this year
    President Bush, in announcing Judge Samuel Alito's nomination, has urged the Senate to hold a vote on Alito by the end of this year. That seems very unlikely - last...

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    Alito picked to replace O'Connor
    Federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito, Jr., currently sitting on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, will be named this morning to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day...

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