From: "Robert Comer" 

> So far early reaction is that Gary and the conservatives will be very
> happy
> and very reconstructed with this pick.

I tend to like conservative leaning judges more, but the jury is till out
on this one for me.  I'm just not sure he's up to my standards of what a
supreme court justice is supposed to do.  It's early yet and he may
surprise me though...

--
Bob Comer


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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> 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/AR20051031002
27.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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