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...Alito??s disavowal of CAP didn’t mollify Kennedy. The Democrat cited “CAP’s troubling opposition to equal educational opportunity for women, minorities, and the disabled” in a December letter to Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa. And Kennedy raised the issue again at Alito??s confirmation hearings last week...
...Judiciary Committee was originally scheduled to vote on Alito??s nomination this week, but Democrats delayed a vote until next Tuesday. The full Senate is scheduled to debate Alito??s confirmation Wednesday...
...opening remarks, Tribe said that while he would not offer a formal recommendation to the committee on Alito??s confirmation, he sought to prevent senators from voting with “their eyes wide shut...
Sitting to the right of Tribe was Charles Fried, the Beneficial professor of law at Harvard and the former solicitor general in the Reagan administration. While in that post, Fried briefly served as Alito??s boss. In his testimony, Fried said that he did not believe Alito would launch a frontal assault on Roe v. Wade. But, he twice repeated, “I could be quite wrong...
Fried also defended Alito??s writings for the solicitor general’s office, which have come under scrutiny for his remarks on abortion and the executive branch...