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Fried wrote in the New York Times last week that “Alito’s detractors ignore the context and the content” of the 1985 abortion memo. The op-ed also defended a 1984 memo by Alito, in which the future high-court nominee argued that executive-branch officials who order illegal domestic wiretaps should be immune from personal liability...
...phone interview Saturday afternoon, Fried said his prepared statement, which he will submit to the Senate committee today, will make several of the same points as his Times op-ed, but that the format of the prepared statement—which carries no limit on length—allows for a “fuller” exposition than the roughly 800-word Times article...
Alito’s opinion in that case drew fire from Tribe in an op-ed in the Boston Globe in November. Tribe wrote: “Was he perhaps viewing the ‘burden’ on married women in this situation as simply their due, as something that goes with the territory when a woman weds?...
...same op-ed, Tribe also blasted Alito’s 2000 ruling declaring that parts of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act violate the 11th Amendment. “You can’t help doing a double-take when you read Judge Samuel Alito’s opinion,” wrote Tribe, who is the Loeb University professor at Harvard...
...according to Tribe, the family leave ruling and the abortion case will not figure prominently in his prepared statement before the Senate committee. “I can tell you that I don’t plan to repeat the emphasis of the op-ed I wrote, although it’s possible I might mention the abortion and/or family and medical leave cases as part of one or another larger theme,” Tribe wrote in an e-mail...