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Harvard constitutional scholar Laurence H. Tribe ’62 said he will “probably not” make a recommendation either for or against Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.’s confirmation later this week when the professor testifies to the Senate Judiciary Committee...
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...
Alito’s Senate confirmation hearings begin today. Fried and Tribe both say they expect to testify Thursday afternoon or Friday morning...
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...