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...dimensional character at the center of it all. Robert Bork played that role magnificently in his 1987 epic Supreme Court battle, as did Clarence Thomas in his more understated performance four years later. More recently, during the bloody conservative revolt over the Supreme Court nomination of White House counsel Harriet Miers, the real villain turned out to be her chief backer, a President who dared tell his loyal base to just trust him on this...
...blog by a fake Alito who claims "the 'A.' stands for awesome," warns people not to make anything of his newly thick coif. "Choke on it," he commands. At UNDERNEATH THEIR ROBES, another humorous blog devoted to the federal judiciary, Alito didn't make the list of "superhotties." But HARRIET MIERS'S BLOG!!!, run by a fictional version of the jettisoned nominee, had this parting shot: "Judge not or you'll be judged yourself...
...Scalito” by his critics, is a radical conservative and a terrible choice for the bench. Our Senators must do all that they can to prevent him from joining the highest court in the land.Although Alito is more qualified for the position than the previous nominee, Harriet Miers, this not saying much. To be even considered for the Supreme Court, a person needs far more experience in constitutional law and jurisprudence than Miers had. Bush’s efforts to lower the bar with her nomination should not invite praise for Alito for being something more than a tail...
...past week, Google has activated a searchable database of its first 10,000 digitized books—none of which are under copyright protection. Some of the works from the Harvard collection included in this first release are volumes by Henry James, Edith Wharton, Booker T. Washington, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Margaret Fuller. The resumption this week of scanning in-copyright materials has intensified uproar over the initiative. The Authors Guild, which represents more than 8,000 writers, filed suit to stop Google Print in September, and the Association of American Publishers, which includes more than 300 publishing houses, filed...
...Unlike Harriet Miers, Alito boasts an impeccable résumé. A graduate of Princeton and Yale Law School, Alito spent the early part of his career working in prestigious positions within the Justice Department. Nominated to the federal bench in 1990, he secured unanimous confirmation from the Senate. Since then he has accumulated more experience in the federal judiciary than any other Supreme Court nominee in 70 years. Present and former colleagues of all political persuasions have been quick to praise Alito as an impartial, meticulous, and talented jurist...