At Hearings, Democrats Plan to Call Critics of Alito's Integrity (This is Before Dujack was Pulled)

The New York Times ^ | January 5, 2006 | David D. Kirkpatrick

[new yorker 77]

WASHINGTON, Jan. 5 - Signaling their intent to put up a tough fight in next week's hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., Senate Democrats said Thursday that they would call at least two witnesses who could question his personal credibility as well several experts on civil rights and constitutional law.

One witness is John G. S. Flym, a legal scholar. In 2002, Mr. Flym served as counsel to a plaintiff suing the mutual fund company Vanguard in a case that came before Judge Alito on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.

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The other witness expected to address Judge Alito's character is Stephen R. Dujack, a journalist who has criticized a conservative alumni group to which Judge Alito belonged. The group, Concerned Alumni of Princeton, opposed the university's admission of women, criticized its affirmative action policies and urged the admission of more alumni children. It went out of business around 1987.

Judge Alito wrote in a 1985 application for a promotion in the Reagan administration that he belonged to the group. Records of the group give no indication that he played an active role in it, and in a response to a Senate judicial questionnaire for the Supreme Court nomination Judge Alito said he did not recall being a member until he was reminded by the disclosure of his 1985 application.

Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas and a member of the Judiciary Committee, said the witnesses were a sign that Democrats were grasping for objections. "It just shows how desperate they are to come up with something to criticize him for," he said.

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[right right]

I just hope that if the damndims ever get back in, the repubs take nasty and lowly tactics to a new high against these idiots.

[new yorker 77]

The Dems will be obliterated in 2006.

As long as we need to fight for Justices like Roberts and Alito, we Conservatives will vote in mass.

We know Justice Stevens and Justice Ginsburg are this close to retire or expire.

We know they want to Impeach Bush.

We know they want to surrender to terrorists and abandon our troops.

We will vote. They will lose again.

The only way they can make us disappear is through their FAKE NEWS and FAKE POLLS.

Message to libs, We are real and we vote. Enjoy.

[manwiththehands]

And the Senate Republicans are ready and able to "rope-a-dope" the Senate Lollipop Guild.

[new yorker 77]

And the Senate Republicans are ready and able to "rope-a-dope" the Senate Lollipop Guild.

I running on fumes here. Is your statement confident of the GOP or concerned.

I'm reading it as confident. Am I correct?

[grannylinedancer]

I think an immediate search should be done by the best blogger online. Lets find out about the Integrity of the Witnesses. THEN lets do a search on the Integrity of each member of the Judiciary Committee who thinks he's clean enough to question Alito. Republicans need to fight dirty on this one!

[manwiththehands]

I've been running on fumes since last summer when I realized all of Bush's "political capitol" looked like it was pissed into the swamps around New Orleans, in part thanks to our Senate.

I don't trust the Senate any further than I could spit. And the "Republicans" in the Senate are in the majority.

Alito should be a slam dunk, but I've learned anything can happen in the Senate. We shall see.

[new yorker 77]

We shall fight.

[AmericaUnited]

Rats get their 2 deuces blown out of the water.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 6 - In an unusual move, Senate Republicans have called seven federal judges, all of them colleagues of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, to testify as character witnesses for him next week at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

[rwa265]

I hope that 'if' will never become a 'when'.

[Steve0113]

Placemark.