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Samuel Alito's America — CNN reports that "President Bush will nominate 3rd Circuit Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito for the U.S. Supreme Court." Who is Samuel Alito? ThinkProgress has the facts: — ALITO WOULD OVERTURN ROE V. WADE: In his dissenting opinion in Planned Parenthood v. Casey …
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Bush Selects Alito for Supreme Court — President Bush today will name appeals court Judge Samuel A. Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court, according to a source close to the White House. Alito, 55, serves on the Philadelphia-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit …
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Kash / Angry Bear:
Family Values — The opinion of Bush's newest nomination to the Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, regarding the abortion issue will undoubtedly receive a flood of attention in coming weeks. But Alito's opinion regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), signed into law in 1993 by Bill Clinton …
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CNN:
Officials: Bush to nominate Alito to high court — Miers helps finalize choice to replace her as Supreme Court pick — WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush will nominate 3rd Circuit Appeals Court Judge Samuel Alito for the U.S. Supreme Court, sources told CNN on Monday.
Matt Margolis / Blogs for Bush:
Confirm Judge Alito — President George W. Bush to nominate Samuel Alito for Supreme Court... Well, I was admittedly not thrilled with Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court, Judge Alito, however, I can say is a good pick, and I am sure conservatives will support this nomination. It's time to start a coalition...
Ron Fournier / Associated Press:
Bush to Nominate Alito to Supreme Court — WASHINGTON - President Bush, stung by the rejection of his first choice, will nominate Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, selecting a conservative federal judge to replace retiring Justice — " /> Sandra Day O'Connor, a moderate.
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Michelle Malkin:
IT'S SAMUEL ALITO — ***scroll for updates...1030am EDT appearance with GOP Sens...1110am Schumer exploits Rosa Parks...gross...video at The Political Teen*** — Via Breitbart/AP, we have a nominee: Samuel A. Alito, Jr. White House will make official announcement at 8am EDT. — Details from USNews:
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Rude One / The Rude Pundit:Samuel Alito, Another Motherf**ker For America:
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Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
ABORTION AND SPOUSAL NOTIFICATION: As several people point out, that's going to be an issue with regard to Alito. I'm not sure what I think about this issue, but looking at the Pennsylvania statute I notice a lot of exceptions, one of which is this: "Her spouse is not the father of the child."
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Kathryn Jean Lopez / Bench Memos on National …:Abortion — Already this morning, I've heard a lefty …
New Yorker:
SCOOTER'S SEX SHOCKER — Of all the scribbled sentences that have converged to create the Valerie Plame affair, the most remarkable, in literary terms, may belong to Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney's recently deposed chief of staff. "Out West, where you vacation, the aspens will already be turning.
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Thomas Wagner / Associated Press:
Car Bomb Kills 20 in Basra, Police Say — BASRA, Iraq - A car bomb exploded Monday night in a commercial district of Iraq's second-largest city of Basra, killing at least 20 people and wounding about 40, a police official said. — The car bomb in the southern city of Basra exploded about 8:30 p.m., police Lt. Col. Karim al-Zaidi.
Drudge Report:
CBS REPORTER TO WHITE HOUSE: ALITO 'SLOPPY SECONDS?' — CBSNEWS Chief White House correspondent John Roberts described the President's selection of Judge Samuel Alito as "sloppy seconds" during today's press gaggle with White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan.
