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Other students echoed Negron’s request to promote a judicial philosophy different from the one that the Bush administration and Originalist judges like Alito and Antonin Scalia have supported...
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Because they are both Catholic, Italian-American conservative federal judges who hail from Trenton, N.J., Alito and Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia have often been viewed as brothers in arms--so much so that Alito earned the nickname Scalito among many court watchers. But the comparison is misleading. Throughout Alito's career--from his time as an Assistant Solicitor General and Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Reagan Administration to his three years as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey to the past 15 years as a Newark-based judge on the Third Circuit Appeals Court--he has earned...
...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, it is even more critical that Senate Democrats...
Last December, Senator Minority Leader Harry Reid, commenting on the possibility of Antonin Scalia becoming the Chief Justice, said, “I disagree with many of the results that he arrives at, but his reason for arriving at those results are [sic] very hard to dispute.” Amen. The staff editorial is based not on considerations of jurisprudence but on naked political considerations, and, given his impressive credentials and capabilities, we wish Alito a quick confirmation...