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Ethics expert Ted Kennedy is offended by Judge Alito's participation in a case involving the Vanguard mutual fund, in which Alito has been invested. When he became aware of Vanguard’s connection in the case, Alito immediately recused himself despite the fact he was under no legal obligation to do so and neither Vanguard nor he benefited from his ruling. After he informed the other judges on his court, a new panel reheard the case and issued the same ruling. Now, if this is a basis for denying Alito a seat on the Supreme Court, then I would think if a...

We've all heard about the pledge that Judge Alito made to recuse himself on cases involving Vanguard when he was appointed to the Appellate Court. I don't remember a pledge like this being extracted from any other judge. Exactly why and how did pledge come to exist. What were the exact terms? I certainly don't expect the MSM to report the details unless it hurt Judge Alito.

A curious e-mail is making the rounds from Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy's communications director, Stephanie Cutter, attacking Judge Alito's response last week to the Senate Judiciary Committee's request for more information about Judge Alito's involvement in a case in Vanguard mutual funds was a party in name only. In Monga v. Ottenberg, a bankruptcy receiver sought to have a party's IRA assets (which included funds in a Vanguard account) made available to pay the bankrupt party's creditors. Vanguard was a party to the case because the bankrupt party sued it to prevent it from releasing his IRA funds to his...

Alito's Sock Drawer If you can't beat him on philosophy, try ethics. Monday, November 14, 2005 12:01 a.m. EST Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito must be sailing toward Senate confirmation. We say this because his opponents--who know they can't beat him on credentials or judicial philosophy--are now rolling out the "ethics" machinery. The eight Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee wrote last week to the chief judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals demanding more information about Judge Alito's participation in a 2002 case called Monga v. Ottenberg. On Thursday, Chairman Arlen Specter urged the nominee to give a...

Click here to read a letter from Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr., a Trustee Professor of Law at the University of PensylvaniaClick here to read a letter from Ronald D. Rotunda, a Professor of Law at George Mason University

Senate Judiciary Dems Take Aim at Alito Nov 09 6:51 PM US/Eastern Email this story By DAVID ESPO AP Special Correspondent WASHINGTON Senate Democrats issued their first coordinated challenge to Judge Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court on Wednesday, seeking extensive records about his participation in a 2002 appeals case despite a six-figure investment with one of the defendants. In a letter to the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the eight Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee said Alito had promised the panel in 1990 he would "disqualify myself from any cases involving the Vanguard companies." The letter...

C-SPAN has announced they will cover today's Reclaiming Our Destiny: The New Black Vanguard Conference II LIVE AT 10 AM P.S.T./ 1 PM E.S.T., sponsored by The Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny (BOND) and The Heritage Foundation and held at The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Auditorium (214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE, Washington, DC). Participants include: Dr. Shelby Steele, Senior Fellow, The Hoover Institution; Linda Porter, Hurricane Katrina Survivor and Founder of Jochebed Education Project; Joseph Phillips, Actor and Columnist; and Moderator, Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, Founder and President of BOND. Distinguished guests will address these and other questions: -Is too much...

In... 1970, a Washington gossip columnist found herself seated at a dinner party next to rocket engineer Wernher von Braun. "One of the most fascinating men in the world has just moved to town," she gushed to her readers afterward. "The rocket genius is a brilliant conversationalist, extremely handsome and socially charming." It might seem odd to judge the mastermind of the Apollo program's Saturn V launch vehicle -- and, earlier, the German V-2 -- by his savoir faire. Yet Dr. von Braun's gift for talk and salesmanship, together with his technical skill and managerial prowess, were indispensable to his...

Amazing. When things are going bad for companies, the media is all over it. Small investors are frightened and quite often sell their shares at a loss. At the same time, when things are turning around for a company...the pundits are unusually quiet and the big boys quickly accumulate shares at the lower prices. Dynegy was having a lot of trouble with debt post-Enron like many other utilities. With the difficulties came articles from The Street.com and others to effect that Dynegy was having a losing streak on earnings. Things are beginning to pick up as Dynegy is slowly, but...

For several years I have been regularly investing with Fidelity Investments. They've always been very competent, very friendly, and very professional. However, in today's unsettled economic environment my wife and I decided that perhaps it would be wise to diversify our portfolio by investing with an additional firm. We decided to approach Vanguard............

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - An investors group headed by the chairman of the Hooters restaurants is interested in Vanguard Airlines, the Kansas City-based discount carrier that shut down and filed for bankruptcy last month.The airline filed for Chapter 11 protection from creditors on July 30, abruptly stopping all flights and laying off most of its 1,100 employees. It will be in U.S. Bankruptcy Court Wednesday seeking interim financing from the group while negotiations continue on a potential acquisition or investment, said Elizabeth Cattell, vice president of marketing and advertising.The investors group is led by Robert H. Brooks, an Atlanta businessman...

<p>KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) --  Vanguard Airlines suspended operations Tuesday, saying it would lay off nearly all its employees and file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy organization.</p> <p>The Kansas City-based discount carrier has never shown an annual profit in eight years of operation. A recorded announcement on its reservation line early Tuesday said all Tuesday and Wednesday flights had been cancelled and all other flights scheduled after that have been suspended indefinitely.</p>