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Alito It Is (Or So It Seems)
ConfirmThem.com ^ | 10/28/2005 | Erick

Posted on 10/28/2005 8:33:00 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever

Multiple sources are telling RedState that Samuel A. Alito, Jr. of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals will be named by the President at the next associate justice of the United States Supreme Court as early as Monday.

“The situation is still in flux,” says one source, “but not very much.” Says another, “The White House Counsel’s Office is not doing too good at keeping this a secret.”

Still another source says, “Luttig and Alito were the fall backs to Miers. They have both been vetted. Alito seems more palatable. There is no need to drag this out, he’s been vetted a million times.”

And yet another source tells me that he is convinced Alito is the nominee barring some last minute unforeseen issue. All signs are pointing to Judge Alito right now. Things could change, but as the weekend draws closer it seems more and more likely that Judge Alito will be the nominee and conservatives will have a fight on their hands in the Senate — a very winnable fight.


TOPICS: Front Page News
KEYWORDS: alito; bush; judicialnominees; miers; scotus
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To: wagglebee

His nickname is "Scalito (as in Scalia)."

'Nuff said.


21 posted on 10/28/2005 8:38:24 AM PDT by RockinRight (It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
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To: edmond246

They call him Scalito.


22 posted on 10/28/2005 8:38:27 AM PDT by Huck (My very first post on the Miers pick, 10/3/05, 7:33:22 AM EDT: "Bad news for us.")
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To: wagglebee
I'm not all that familiar with Alito, do you know anything about him?

I posted this on another thread. It looked appropriate here.

I looked up his name in Wikipedia. Normally I wouldn't trust it on any controversial issue or person, but I loved this line:

His ideological likeness to United States Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia has earned him the nickname "Scalito."

I like him already.

23 posted on 10/28/2005 8:39:07 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (We were promised someone in the Scalia/Thomas mold. Maybe <strike>next</strike> this time.)
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To: RockinRight

Thank you!


24 posted on 10/28/2005 8:39:22 AM PDT by edmond246 (God Bless America)
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To: Rutles4Ever

If this is true, it would appear President Bush has heard our voices.


25 posted on 10/28/2005 8:40:22 AM PDT by Diplomat (Give me a real Conservative on the Supreme Court, or give me Republican party death!)
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To: edmond246

Yes, yes, yes, and yes.


26 posted on 10/28/2005 8:40:28 AM PDT by thoughtomator (Ninety-nine Republican Arlen Specters aren’t worth one Democratic Zell Miller)
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To: Rutles4Ever; RockinRight

I will be VERY HAPPY he is the nominee.


27 posted on 10/28/2005 8:40:34 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: dubyaismypresident

The DU'ers will go abso-frickin-lutely NUTS if it's him.

I can't wait!


28 posted on 10/28/2005 8:40:56 AM PDT by RockinRight (It’s likely for a Conservative to be a Republican, but not always the other way around)
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To: TravisBickle

LOL!


29 posted on 10/28/2005 8:41:01 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: KarlInOhio

Yeah, I already saw that. This sounds great!


30 posted on 10/28/2005 8:41:15 AM PDT by wagglebee ("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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To: Huck

lets hope our quisling senators grow a pair


31 posted on 10/28/2005 8:41:17 AM PDT by italianquaker (Bush Derangement syndrome coming to a theatre near you)
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To: RockinRight
The DU'ers will go abso-frickin-lutely NUTS if it's him. I can't wait!

No indictiments for felonies, plus Scalio?

DU will need a suicide watch. This could be shadenreude at it's finest ever.

32 posted on 10/28/2005 8:42:50 AM PDT by NeoCaveman (Janice Rogers Brown for SCOTUS..... or heck, any originalist)
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To: edmond246

Let's put it this way....Ann Coulter likes him. She's beeng singing his praises since all this SCOTUS stuff started after Rehnquist passed away. If Ann likes him (and Ann didn't even like Roberts) that's probably a good sign.


33 posted on 10/28/2005 8:42:53 AM PDT by ark_girl
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To: Rutles4Ever

I am still betting it is a hispanic.


34 posted on 10/28/2005 8:42:59 AM PDT by linkinpunk
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To: italianquaker
lets hope our quisling senators grow a pair...

Grow a pair of what; marshmallows?

35 posted on 10/28/2005 8:43:22 AM PDT by 6SJ7
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To: Rutles4Ever

"Luttig and Alito were the fall backs to Miers"

Gee, I thought everyone else had dropped out and miers was all they had.


36 posted on 10/28/2005 8:43:32 AM PDT by flashbunny (Ask yourself why some posters here use the term "uber conservative" like it's some kind of slur.)
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To: wagglebee
Wikipedia: Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
37 posted on 10/28/2005 8:44:03 AM PDT by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: edmond246

Yes to all of the above.


38 posted on 10/28/2005 8:44:05 AM PDT by clee1 (We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
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To: 6SJ7

you know


39 posted on 10/28/2005 8:44:11 AM PDT by italianquaker (Bush Derangement syndrome coming to a theatre near you)
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To: wagglebee
Courtesy of Internet grab:

A New Jersey native, the 55-year-old Alito received a bachelor's degree from Princeton and graduated from Yale Law School. He worked in the solicitor general's office during the Reagan administration and was a U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey when George H.W. Bush nominated him to the Third Circuit. His 15 years on the bench have been marked by strong conservatism on a case-by-case basis that avoids sweeping opinions on constitutionality.

40 posted on 10/28/2005 8:44:36 AM PDT by frogjerk (LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
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