From: Ellen K. 

Maybe he gets to be considered a semi-minority by virtue of having a name
that ends in a vowel.   

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:05:59 -0500, "Gary Britt"
 wrote in message
:

>He's not the most conservative scholar and intellectual that Bush could have
>nominated, but he is 10,000 times better than Harriet Miers.
>
>By dropping the bullshit quota he imposed on himself and going with one of
>the best qualified candidates, male or female, Bush's approval ratings will
>rise over the next week or two as a result of this pick.
>
>He pretty much had to pick a man it seems, because he painted himself into a
>corner with Miers by stating she was the most qualified pick available
>(which since it was known he only considered women was the same thing as
>saying she was the most qualified women pick)  Had he picked another women,
>the press would have dogged him by saying the pick was less qualified than
>Miers according to Bush.
>
>So far early reaction is that Gary and the conservatives will be very happy
>and very reconstructed with this pick.
>
>Gary
>
>"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
>news:4366202a$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>>
>>
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/31/AR200510310022
7.html
>>
>> Samuel A. Alito Jr., 55, is a jurist in the mold of Justice Antonin
>Scalia.
>> Nicknamed "Scalito," or "little Scalia," by
some lawyers, the federal
>> appeals court judge is a frequent dissenter with a reputation for having
>one
>> of the sharpest conservative minds in the country.
>>
>> Educated at Princeton University and Yale Law School, Alito was nominated
>by
>> President George H.W. Bush to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd
>Circuit
>> in 1990. He had worked for the Justice Department in the Reagan
>> administration and served as U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey.
>>
>> In 1991, he was the lone dissenter in a 3rd Circuit decision striking down
>a
>> Pennsylvania law's requirement that women tell their husbands before
>having
>> an abortion. Alito also wrote a 1997 ruling that Jersey City officials did
>> not violate the Constitution with a holiday display that included a
>creche,
>> a menorah and secular symbols of the Christmas season.
>>
>> Three years ago Alito drew conflict-of-interest accusations after he
>upheld
>> a lower court's dismissal of a lawsuit against the Vanguard Group. Alito
>had
>> hundreds of thousands of dollars invested with the mutual fund company at
>> the time. He denied doing anything improper but recused himself from
>further
>> involvement in the case.
>>
>> Key Documents:
>>
>>
>> .. Shore Regional High School Board of Education v. P.S., on Behalf of
>P.S.
>> (Aug. 20, 2004). Alito rules in favor of a complaint brought under the
>> Individuals with Disabilities Education Act by a boy badly bullied by his
>> classmates who was seeking legal relief but had been rebuffed by a U.S.
>> District Court.
>>
>>
>> .. Ronald A. Williams v. Price, Fisher (Sept. 9, 2003). Authors a majority
>> opinion granting federal court review to an African American who could not
>> get state courts to hear his claim of racial bias on the part of a juror
>in
>> his trial.
>>
>>
>> .. Sheridan v. Dupont (May 4, 1995). Dissents and argues that the Third
>> Circuit had made it too easy for discrimination complaints to reach a jury
>> trial.
>>
>>
>> .. ACLU v. Schundler (Aug. 6, 1998). Holds that Jersey City, NJ's holiday
>> display that included a creche and menorah did not violate the
>establishment
>> clause of the First Amendment because it included secular symbols such as
>> Frosty the Snowman.
>>
>>
>>
>

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