So it turns out that Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito said, on a 1985 job application, that he didn't believe that the Constitution should protect a right to abortion.  The relevant sentence is this:I am particularly proud of my … [Read more...]

An emerging issue in the Alito Supreme Court nomination has been his participation in cases involving parties such as Vanguard (in which he had invested a substantial amount of money) and his sister's law firm.  The issue is not so … [Read more...]

Alito will be confirmed.  The stars are never wrong. … [Read more...]

This darned judge:Wrote an opinion prohibiting the use of any state-owned facilities for abortions, possibly right down to the public water supply - and in the process looked forward to the day when the Supreme Court could "reexamine … [Read more...]

I have no position yet on what the Democrats should do about Judge Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court.  But I spoke this morning to a lawyer whom I know to be a partisan progressive Democrat who knows Alito, and who supports the … [Read more...]

I asked Pringle to describe what kind of judge Alito is.  She said that Alito is "very thoughtful, very careful, very respectful of Supreme Court precedent.  He has a strong conservative intellectual approach to things, but … [Read more...]

President Bush, in announcing Judge Samuel Alito's nomination, has urged the Senate to hold a vote on Alito by the end of this year.  That seems very unlikely - last I heard, both Republicans and Democrats were saying that the … [Read more...]

Federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito, Jr., currently sitting on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, will be named this morning to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.Bush tried the whole "go outside the federal … [Read more...]

Senate minority leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on this morning's withdrawal of Harriet Miers's nomination to the Supreme Court:The radical right wing of the Republican Party killed the Harriet Miers nomination. Apparently, Ms. Miers did not … [Read more...]

There has been a lot of fuss lately about two approaches to Constitutional interpretation by the Supreme Court. "Original intent" supporters think the justices should transport themselves back in time to the moment when the law at … [Read more...]