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That law required married women to receive their husband’s consent before obtaining an abortion, except in cases of spousal abuse. Alito said the law was constitutional because it did not impose an “undue burden” on women...
...Alito, who became a federal appellate judge in 1990, angered abortion-rights advocates the following year with his opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey, another case concerning a Pennsylvania abortion...
...solicitor general is the lawyer who represents the federal government in Supreme Court cases. When Fried assumed that post in 1985, Alito was a junior lawyer in the solicitor general’s office. Alito left the office late that year to take a higher-ranking Justice Department post...
Instead, Tribe wrote that his testimony would emphasize “the problem of unfettered executive power, and the reasons to worry about Alito in connection with such power...
Resumes don?t get much better than this: Princeton; Yale Law School; high-powered Washington jobs; 15 years of distinguished service on the federal bench. But for Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito, a lifetime's work has boiled down to one public performance this week on Capitol Hill. For months now, Senators from both parties have said Alito's fate hangs not on his record, but on how he does in the Judiciary Committee hearings that opened Monday at noon in the Hart Senate office building. Democrats have mined Alito's writings and come up with what they...