urban legend?
I really have no details other than what I posted. But my friend is absolutely truthfully relaying to me what his mother said Judge Alito's mother told her.
It's a pretty short chain for a rumor (two people I've known for about twenty years) from the judge's mother.
http://publiceyeblog.com/index.php/2006/01 ...
There's another claim, but not with the personal relationship claimed here.