So who are the gals that sat with Mrs Alito all week?

[DoYouEverWonder]

The two women to the Mrs Alito's left were there all week. Prime seats behind the nominee. I am curious because I heard they were from Creative Response Concepts, the company who brought us the Swift Boat Vets and the TANG forgeries.

[acmejack]

1. Alito's Sister & daughter.

The blond young one was his daughter.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. They sat to Mrs. Alito's right

I'm talking about the 'clerks' who sat to her left. They are never indentified in the pictures and they appeared to be 'advisors', which is not unusual, except who they work for is a concern.

[0007]

3. I don't see a blond. Who is the guy with his back to us, talking to those

two ladies?

[deminks]

4. The gal in the red is Rachel Brand

Assistant atty general - on the list as one of hubby's vettors and preppers. The man in the pic urging wifey to catch up to hubby who is hurrying out the door is Dan Coats - former senator and also one of hubby's vettors. Ms. Brand was seen to lean over to wifey and say something just before she got up to leave during the crying jag.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=124864&mesg_id=124864

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. Thanks

So she's from DOJ. Where did she work before that I wonder?

[Cooley Hurd]

11. Official bio:

From the DOJ website:

Rachel Brand was confirmed by the United States Senate as the Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy of the United States Department of Justice on July 28, 2005. She had served as Acting Assistant Attorney General since March 28, 2005. As the Assistant Attorney General, she manages the development of a variety of civil and criminal policy initiatives, the creation of departmental regulations, and the Department’s role in the confirmation of the President’s judicial nominees. From July 27, 2003, until her appointment as the Assistant Attorney General, Ms. Brand served as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Office of Legal Policy and focused particularly on issues related to the war on terrorism.

Rachel previously served as an Associate Counsel to the President and, prior to that, was associated with the law firm Cooper, Carvin & Rosenthal. She clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy and Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court Justice Charles Fried. Rachel received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was Deputy Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, and received her B.A. from the University of Minnesota.

[DoYouEverWonder]

22. Here husband sounds like a real sweetheart too

Jonathan Cohn, Deputy Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice offered testimony on the state of illegal immigration and crime, of all things.

In 2001 (and again last year), the Supreme Court ruled that criminal aliens could not be held for more than six months if their home country refuses repatriation.

So what do we do with these murderers, rapists and child molesters if their home country won’t take them back?

We turn them loose, of course!

Oh yes! We place child molesting illegal aliens back into American neighborhoods.

According to AG Cohn:

"Among the aliens who will benefit are criminals who have murdered their wives, molested young children, and brutally raped several women." US: Illegal Alien Criminals Released After Supreme Court Rulings, Voice of America,

[Cooley Hurd]

5. Wonkette says the brunette sitting next to Martha-Ann was...

From Wonkette:

<snip>
A Wonkette operative passes along an update on your unhealthy attraction to Alito’s daughter:

“Alito's Daughter is a blonde not a brunette. She's a looker too, but the mystery girl isn't the daughter. Or does Alito have two daughters? I thought Laura was the only one.”

And later, another update:

“I think that the woman most have thought was Alito's daughter was Rachel Brand assistant to the Attorney General.”

UPDATE: Another Wonkette reader writes in to update:



"Rachel Brand is Assistant Attorney General for the Office of Legal Policy. Quite different from Assistant to the Attorney General. I think Mike Brown made the opposite mistake on his resume."
</snip>

More about Rachel Brand from SourceWatch

<snip>

Confirmation Concerns
In his May 12, 2005, statement before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Vermont Senator Patrick J. Leahy said (http://www.senate.gov/comm/judiciary/general/member_statement.cfm?id=1500&wit_id=2629) that "Brand has held several impressive positions in her brief career, including working in the White House Counsel’s Office and her current position as Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General.

"Unfortunately," he said, "it appears she brings very little depth of experience to a position that is instrumental in setting out DOJ priorities and recommending new judges. By way of comparison, Eleanor Acheson, President Clinton’s nominee for the same position, had practiced law for 19 years prior to her appointment, and Viet Dinh, President Bush’s first nominee to head OLP was a professor at Georgetown University Law Center who had published several scholarly articles and op-eds and had held several congressional positions by the time of his appointments.

"Ms. Brand has apparently been heavily involved in the judicial nominations process both at the White House and at DOJ. Given this administration’s pattern of nominating ideologically extreme candidates for the judiciary and making politically aggressive nominations decisions such as re-nominating candidates previously disapproved, I would like to hear about Ms. Brand’s role in crafting nominations policy and her views about ways to reach consensus in this process. I also look forward to hearing about Ms. Brand’s views about the important congressional and judicial checks set out in the Patriot Act. I am interested in the policies and priorities she has developed for OLP. I would like to hear about DOJ’s plans to carry out the mandates and priorities set out in the Justice For All Act," Leahy said.
</snip>

[DoYouEverWonder]

8. Where do they find these bots?

I guess the fundie churches are full of them.

[TheGunslinger]

9. But Leahy has no trouble letting another "ideological extreme candidate"

pass on thru.

[Cooley Hurd]

12. He does? I haven't heard that...

:shrug:

[TheGunslinger]

13. I'm not hearing any filibustering....

Where's *our* Mr. Smith?

[Cooley Hurd]

17. Of course not- to broadcast any filibuster intentions would be folly...

They're keeping their card close to the breast.:thumbsup:

[TheGunslinger]

19. I'm not holding my breath.

and it pisses me off.

[DoYouEverWonder]

20. The DEMS have delayed the vote

and they have not taken the option to filibuster off the table. This is how the dance is played in the Senate. All is not lost yet or even anywhere near it.

[leftchick]

7. The one on the right is from the Justice department

she was on c-span Thurday. What a shill.

[DoYouEverWonder]

16. Here's a better picture

The other one next to her looks like a real gem too.

[win_in_06]

10. Where are all of these conservative women coming from?

The Phyllis Schafly School for girls?

[Cooley Hurd]

14. A little town called Stepford...

[deminks]

15. WP: Who was that striking lady in red?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/12/AR2006011202530.html

...She's married, to her Harvard Law sweetie and fellow Justice attorney Jonathan Cohn . But you may get to see more of her: Once a clerk for Justice Anthony Kennedy, she's a rising star in administration legal circles who was trusted to run all three "murder boards" (the practice hearings) -- for Chief Justice Roberts , Harriet Miers and Alito.

[DoYouEverWonder]

18. "Assistant Attorney General Rachel Brand has been noticed"

That's the caption for her mug shot in the WP. LOL



Yes, we were just noticing her too.


Thanks for the link.

[Cooley Hurd]

21. They call her striking - I call her "horse-faced..."

:puke: