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...they had given Alito the ABA's highest possible rating, Democrats could already see the writing on the wall. The final blow came when a panel of seven current and former judges from the Philadelphia-based Third Circuit Court of Appeals lined up to praise their colleague on the bench. Vermont's Senator Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the committee, effectively conceding defeat, declined even to ask them a question...
Tribe’s statement could be a positive omen for Alito, given that Tribe has previously played a key role in blocking a conservative judge from gaining a spot on the high-court bench...
...three months earlier, Tribe had helped the Senate Democrats plan their drive to block a conservative judge, Robert H. Bork, from gaining a spot on the high-court bench. The professor played the role of “Judge Bork” in a practice session as then-Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Joseph R. Biden, Jr., D-Del., honed his cross-examination tactics, according to a 1987 Washington Post report. And Tribe “served as the keynote speaker for the opposition” at the Bork hearings, according to a New York Times report that same year...
Resumes don?t get much better than this: Princeton; Yale Law School; high-powered Washington jobs; 15 years of distinguished service on the federal bench. But for Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito, a lifetime's work has boiled down to one public performance this week on Capitol Hill. For months now, Senators from both parties have said Alito's fate hangs not on his record, but on how he does in the Judiciary Committee hearings that opened Monday at noon in the Hart Senate office building. Democrats have mined Alito's writings and come up with what they...
...things.“The first thing was, if we played like that the first 40 minutes, we wouldn’t have found ourselves in that position and we would have won the game,” he said.The second thing was an apology: Donato’s bench minor, assessed after an animated conversation with an official at 13:10, led to RPI’s third goal, which came with one second remaining on the power play.“I ask our guys to play with composure—I’ve got to have...