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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...
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...
...country, have been gearing up for a fight over the next Supreme Court vacancy--just not quite the fight they got. Expectations that Rehnquist, 80, who is battling thyroid cancer, would step down have had constituencies on both left and right poised for battle. They have not had a high-court nomination to contend with since 1994, making this the longest the court has gone without any change in its membership since the 1820s. The less anticipated resignation of O'Connor, 75, abruptly raised the stakes. A contest over Rehnquist's successor would be pitched enough, but his departure would...
...People think they can all be pop stars, high-court judges, brilliant TV personalities or infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the necessary work or having natural ability...
...People think they can all be pop stars, high-court judges, brilliant TV personalities or infinitely more competent heads of state without ever putting in the necessary work or having natural ability." PRINCE CHARLES, describing an employee who has charged the prince's household with sex discrimination and unfair dismissal