Posted on 10/31/2005 3:12:28 AM PST by kcvl
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IMHO, if Roberts and Alito (or anyone in the Scalia mold) is all we get from W serving as president, then he will have done us proud.
This guy is on the most liberal appeal courts in Jersey. He has hasn't drifted left even being on that on that court .....WOO HOO!
NUCLEAR OPTION!!!
From the AP story- an interesting tidbit:
"The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to preview Bush's remarks, said Alito was virtually certain to get the nod from the moment Miers backed out. The 55-year-old jurist was Bush's favorite choice of the judges in the last set of deliberations but he settled instead on someone outside what he calls the "judicial monastery," the officials said."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20051031/ap_on_go_su_co/bush_scotus
SHOCKING. STUNNING. Fabulous, Mr. President.
I agree.
FOX news says confirmation will be a "bloodbath" and "cataclysmic".
I can hardly wait for comments by Reid, Schumer, Kennedy & Leahy - the four stooges!
Bush gets up early...
This is what the GANG OF 7 RENEGADES never wanted... the spot-light is on the SENATE! - Let's the games begin :)
Please remember that MSM (including Fox) hasn't gotten it right yet in their predictions regarding Bush's SC nominees.
Hopefully this is true, but until it's official, there's no way of knowing for sure.
Catholics dominate SC. All the Evangelicals dissed.
Take that, Reid!
"Judge Alito would energize the president's conservative supporters. But he would not be as much of a fight as the others. Luttig and [5th Circuit Judge Priscilla] Owen, in particular, raise the serious prospect of a filibuster and it seems unlikely in the current environment that the administration is anxious to have that fight," Goldstein wrote.
"It seems to me that the pressure to nominate a woman is considerably lessened now, and the focus is on getting someone confirmed. Judge Alito will be grudgingly confirmable to many Democrats once they look at his record," Goldstein wrote.
Goldstein's political calculus could prove to be dead on, especially if the White House is intent on moving quickly and avoiding an ugly confirmation battle.
Born on April Fool's Day in 1950, the 55-year-old Alito might be exactly what Bush is looking for. His resume reads like a recipe for high court consideration -- beginning with undergrad studies at Princeton, perhaps the Ivy League's most welcoming home for conservatives seeking elite educations, and a law degree from Yale, the Bush family's sentimental favorite.
After a clerkship with 3rd Circuit Judge Leonard I. Garth, Alito worked as a front-line federal prosecutor in New Jersey for four years. But soon after President Ronald Reagan was elected, Alito joined the Office of the Solicitor General, staying for four years and helping to decide what position the administration would take in cases up for review by the Supreme Court.
That was followed by a three-year stint at Main Justice as a deputy assistant attorney general. In 1987, at the age of 37, Alito was appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey, a post he held until he was tapped in 1990 by the first President Bush to join the 3rd Circuit.
On the hot-button issues, Alito has been consistently conservative -- so conservative that some lawyers have given him the nickname "Scalito." Roughly translated, the nickname means "Little Scalia," suggesting that Alito has modeled his judicial philosophy after Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
If Alito is nominated and his record is put under the national microscope, conservatives are likely to be happy with what they see.
Man, I am really surprised. I thought for sure it would be a female.
Let's see if he passes the Dan Rather inquisition.
I'm having pleasant fantasies this morning about the possibility of Ginsberg resigning when Alito joins the court since she will be unable, I sincerely hope, to continue imposing her liberal agenda on this country.
GOOD JOB MR. PRESIDENT!!!
THANK YOU.
Bernard just told Imus, Judge Alito is often called
Judge ScAlito, because of Alito's shared philosophy with Scalia.
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