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Michael Stein, a visiting professor of law at Harvard and self-described "left-winger" was a clerk for Samuel Alito in 1991 when the appeals court judge was considering Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v. Casey. That case, involving Pennsylvania laws that placed obstacles in the way of women seeking an abortion, would eventually be addressed in a controversial 5-4 Supreme Court decision that essentially upheld Roe v. Wade. Though the Court agreed with Alito and the other two judges from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, there was one key difference. Alito argued for upholding a law requiring...
...Stein says Alito handled all the research on the case himself, which wasn't unusual for the hands-on judge, but he did not discuss the matter with his clerks or ask them for their own research, which was. "I think that was motivated by a concern to shield his clerks from any potential fallout" from the incendiary case, Stein says. "I had no idea of the result until the decision came...
...Alito, 55, a white male, does nothing for Bush's onetime goal of diversity in the seat of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He was born in the Trenton area, and attends Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Roseland, N.J. His hobby is baseball: He's a Phillies fan, and coached youth league baseball from 1994 to 2000. He also was mock trial coach at a local high school from 2001 to 2003. He heads for confirmation a strong favorite, but with Republicans recognizing he will have to survive a bruising partisan fight to get there, and that some...
...withdrew under fire from conservatives and the 2,000th U.S. soldier died in Iraq, George W. Bush is looking to move forward on a number of key issues. The President got an early start on righting things with Republicans by announcing this morning that federal appeals court judge Samuel Alito is the new nominee to replace Sandra Day O?Connor...
...these issues is designed to boost Bush's low poll numbers by putting him in the role of commander-in-chief, rather than leader of a now-struggling GOP. But as Bush tries to regain his stride, he's expected to start by reaching out to his Republican supporters. Alito looks to be a good beginning; the choice of the Yale Law School grad, who spent a decade working in the Justice Department for both Reagan and the first President Bush, has conservatives excited. In another move to rebuild support among his base, Bush seems now more eager to attack...