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Alito Strode Both Sides in His Last Day on Circuit
The Star Ledger (New Jersey) ^
| Feb. 3, 2006
| Robert Cohen
Posted on 02/03/2006 6:38:55 AM PST by katieanna
On his final day as a federal appeals judge, Samuel A. Alito Jr. issued an opinion that favored a female postal worker claiming sexual discrimination, and another that upheld a warrantless airport search that uncovered illegal drugs. Those 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rulings and a third one authored by Alito had been in the works for months but were released just Tuesday, the day Alito was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court. In the Pennsylvania postal worker case, Alito wrote the opinion for a three-member panel that reversed a lower court and ordered a trial on claims of sexual discrimination and retaliation raised by Anna Jansen.
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: alito; scotus; thirdcircuit
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posted on
02/03/2006 6:38:58 AM PST
by
katieanna
To: katieanna
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posted on
02/03/2006 6:41:24 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
To: katieanna
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posted on
02/03/2006 6:42:49 AM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
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To: Admin Moderator
My apologies for the typo. Title should read "strode". Could you modify? Thank you!
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posted on
02/03/2006 6:43:09 AM PST
by
katieanna
(Money is a good servant but a bad master.)
To: katieanna
An ideal judge is not an ideologue. An ideal judge reads the law, interprets the law and decides in accordance with the written law. Personal opinion should not enter into the equation.
Bush said he chose Alito because he fit the above description. The Democrats got all upset and told everyone that Alito was a scary far-right wacko.
Turns out Bush told the truth, and the Dems lied. Yawn.
To: katieanna
Don't you mean he chipotle both sides?
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posted on
02/03/2006 6:45:17 AM PST
by
Crawdad
(So the guy says to the doctor, "It hurts when I do this.")
To: ClearCase_guy
"An ideal judge is not an ideologue. An ideal judge reads the law, interprets the law and decides in accordance with the written law. Personal opinion should not enter into the equation."
Exactly right. Alito appears to be a very judicious judge to me.
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posted on
02/03/2006 6:46:54 AM PST
by
katieanna
(Money is a good servant but a bad master.)
To: Crawdad
Maybe it should have been "stewed"?........
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posted on
02/03/2006 6:49:45 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
To: katieanna
This is why Alito is the DEMs worst nightmare. He is a real and righteous Judge devoted to the rule of law and justice. Under severe stress during the hearings, he has shown the DEMs on the Senate for what they are: Under achieving, hypersensitive, incompetent, buffoons. Kennedy's McCarthy like behavior will be the undoing of all of them.
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posted on
02/03/2006 7:22:52 AM PST
by
wmileo
To: katieanna
What seems to me is that with Alito, sometimes we will see a result that we don't like. However, this will mean that the problem is not necessarily Alito, but with the legislation, unlike the cases where we have judges (predominantly liberal) who substitute their judgement for the law.
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posted on
02/03/2006 7:25:18 AM PST
by
kevkrom
("...no one has ever successfully waged a war against stupidity" - Orson Scott Card)
To: Red Badger
It's a typo. It should read "stuned".
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posted on
02/03/2006 7:35:19 AM PST
by
Disambiguator
(Making accusations of racism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.)
To: Disambiguator
OH, Now I seee..............
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posted on
02/03/2006 7:35:57 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(...I will bless them that bless thee and those who curse thee I will turn into Liberals..........)
To: Disambiguator
This is series.
All your typos are belong to us.
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