Alito hearings open with calls for fair process, vows for tough questioning
Confirmation hearings for US Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito began Monday with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) promising a "full, fair and dignified hearing," and Senate Democrats vowing to...
Seven present or former members of the US Third Circuit Court of Appeals will testify on behalf of colleague and now US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito at his confirmation hearings beginning Monday according...
Judging Alito: The US Supreme Court Selection System on Trial
JURIST Guest Columnist Bryan Horrigan of Macquarie University Faculty of Law in Sydney, Australia, says that the upcoming confirmation hearings for Judge Samuel Alito are a trial not just of the nominee, but of the uniquely-American system of public judicial...
Alito nomination to be opposed in new liberal advocacy ad campaign
A coalition of liberal interest groups has announced a new series of television commercials aimed at derailing the nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court. The ads, to be officially unveiled Wednesday, will...
BREAKING NEWS ~ Alito wrote in 1985 that Roe should be overturned, docs show
AP is reporting that new US Department of Justice documents released Friday by the National Archives include a 1985 statement by US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito that the landmark Roe v. Wade abortion ruling should...
Frist warns against Alito filibuster, predicts anti-torture deal
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Sunday in an interview on Fox News Sunday that would support changing Senate procedures to ban judicial filibusters if Democrats attempt to use the device to block the US Supreme Coourt nomination of...
Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) , chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee , said Friday that US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito has promised that his views on abortion will not be a factor in...
Samuel A. Alito to the US Solicitor General, Memo re: Thornburgh v. American College of Obstetricians, US Department of Justice, May 30, 1985 [advocating a gradual challenge to the fringes of Roe v. Wade, rather than an all-out assault on...
While serving as an assistant to the solicitor general during the Reagan administration, US Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito advocated a gradual challenge to the fringes of Roe v. Wade, rather than an all-out...
The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard oral arguments in Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England concerning whether the state of New Hampshire...
