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...Hispanic, but never following through. After the President nominated Harriet Miers, Frank said, “it’s hard to argue that no Hispanic made the high bar.”On the issue of abortion, Frank said he would vote against confirming Bush Court nominee Samuel Alito, because he predicted the nominee would try to overturn the landmark Roe v. Wade case. Given Frank’s status as an openly gay politician, it seemed no surprise to the audience when, toward the end of his speech, he said he felt the majority of Americans were...
Only six students attended the introductory meeting for the Harvard chapter of Law Students Against Alito last night—but the chapter’s leaders say they have ambitious plans both to help defeat Samuel A. Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court and to help promote a progressive judicial philosophy on campus...
...students said they will use a variety of tactics to bring about their goals. These will include drafting a model letter for law students to send to their home state congressmen, writing to newspapers, encouraging students to sign an online petition against Alito, and contributing to an online blog run by the national Law Students Against Alito organization...
...Alito]’s going down,” said second-year Harvard Law School (HLS) student Julie Straus to encourage her peers at the outset of the meeting...
...student organizer Matthew A. Macdonald said there was an early consensus that Alito was fairly moderate. But as more information has come out about the judge, he said, there is more to suggest that he is a “movement conservative...