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...remote a possibility as that scenario now seems, it is enough of a threat that the Bush Administration has taken an unprecedented approach to selling Alito. Instead of first focusing on potential liberal opponents on the Senate Judiciary Committee like Ted Kennedy and Joseph Biden, Alito made many of his initial courtesy calls on more moderate Democrats, some of whom are members of the Gang of 14. That coalition of Democrats and Republicans banded together to prevent an escalation to a filibuster--nuclear-option scenario during the battles over federal appeals-court nominees earlier this year, and they met last...
...with interns or lawyers arguing cases in front of him. "He'll ask very penetrating questions, not to demonstrate his intellect, as some judges do, but to penetrate your thoughts," says veteran New Jersey attorney Donald Robinson. More important, those same people testify to Alito's methodical, open-minded approach to deciding cases, one free of dogma and much passion, for that matter. Not only is Alito very careful to follow existing precedent--as he did in invalidating a statute restricting late-term abortions that didn't include an exception for the health of the mother--but he has also...
There is another, less flattering way to characterize that kind of approach: Alito can be seen as overly focused on details and technicalities while missing the fundamental values embedded in such matters as job discrimination and jury selection. "He approaches law in a formalistic, mechanical way abstracted from human experience," says Goodwin Liu, a professor of constitutional law at the University of California, Berkeley...
...philosophy that the Constitution does not allow the federal government to protect individual rights in the way that the current Court has interpreted it. We were optimistic about the nomination of Chief Justice John G. Roberts ’76 because of his seeming lack of ideological approach. Alito, however, shares a radical conservative philosophy with Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas, and failed Supreme Court nominee Robert Bork. In light of the fact that Alito has been nominated to replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, whose position as a swing-vote made her opinion critical in many decisions...
...Joslin says that this approach is consistent with the man he worked with during negotiations with Harvard...