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[Stephanie]

U.S. President George W. Bush shakes hands with Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito (3rd R) at the White House January 31, 2006. Alito was confirmed by the U.S. Senate 58-42 on Tuesday and was sworn in by Chief Justice John Roberts. Alito replaces retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and becomes the 110th member of the Supreme Court. REUTERS/White House/Handout

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[Vickers]

1. What diversity!

Shame we can't see if the little lady is crying again...or was that on the script for this one?

[Richard D]

17. No diversity at all . . .

. . . not a decent looking person in the whole bunch.

[BR_Parkway]

19. Still have a token black and token woman - aren't we going back to

the 1950's? Thought that was the whole 'conservative' movement in a nutshell.

[obreaslan]

21. No diversity???

I see a white person with glasses, and a white person with brown hair and a white person who is bald and a white person with gray hair....

need I go on?


:sarcasm:

[stop the bleeding]

2. fucking tools n/t

[kskiska]

3. Look at poor Harriet Miers on the left

On the outside, looking in.

[Lars39]

4. I am having to self-censor.

[Stephanie]

5. why? vent!

the fuckers deserve it

[Lars39]

8. My thoughts are running more towards verbs.

I can honestly say I have never hated like this before in my life.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. My favorite part is the trained seals all clapping in unison...

...I'll bet it takes a WHOLE LOTTA fish to train' em that way.

:evilgrin:

[Don Claybrook]

7. At least there's one small thing to smile about

On the far left, isnt' that the Harriet Miers idiot, congratulating Alito on the job she didn't get? So it's back to being the hamburger fetcher (or is that Card's job?), stenographer, and White House ethics guru.

[mikelewis]

12. They never intended to confirm her, she was a red herring...

to gin up support for a nominee with experience, no matter what the ideology.

[ewagner]

9. Who is

the bald, fat,portly dude in the purple tie?

[fooj]

11. BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Wondering the same thing.

Peace.

[Stephanie]

13. I wonder if it's someone from the Murder Board >

Alito's 'Murder Board' a Mix of the Legal Elite
Ted Olson, Harriet Miers on rehearsal staff

The National Law Journal
Marcia Coyle
January 30, 2006

The well-handled U.S. Supreme Court nominee is now a fixture in the political process, and much of the credit goes to those so-called murder boards, or preparation sessions for the Senate confirmation hearings.

The lawyers participating on the murder boards represent a mix of government and nongovernment attorneys with backgrounds in the legal areas most likely to interest the senators.

Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel Alito, who appears headed to near-certain confirmation in the U.S. Senate, was shepherded through all of the murder boards by a team that included Steve Schmidt, special advisor to the president in charge of the White House confirmation team, and Harriet Miers, counsel to the president.

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ALITO MURDER BOARD PARTICIPANTS WHITE HOUSE

Steve Schmidt, special advisor to the President in charge of the White House confirmation team
Harriet Miers, Counsel to the President
Bill Kelley, deputy counsel to the President
Brett Kavanaugh, assistant to the President and staff secretary
Bill Burck, deputy assistant to the President and deputy staff secretary
Bill Kelley, deputy counsel to the President
Jenny Brosnahan, associate counsel to the President
Grant Dixton, associate counsel to the President
Leslie Fahrenkopf, associate counsel to the President
Dabney Friedrich, associate counsel to the President
Richard Painter, associate counsel to the President
Ben Powell, associate counsel to the President
Naomi Rao, associate counsel to the President
Brett Gerry, associate counsel to the President
Robert F. Hoyt, executive office of the President
Shannen W. Coffin, general counsel to Vice President Dick Cheney, former partner in Washington, D.C.'s Steptoe & Johnson

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Kyle Sampson, chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
Raul Yanes, senior counsel to the attorney general
Wan Kim, assistant attorney general Civil Rights Division
Steve Bradbury, principal deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Counsel
Rachel Brand, assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Policy
Richard Hertling, principal deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Policy
Kristi Macklin, deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Policy
Brent McIntosh, deputy assistant attorney general, Office of Legal Policy
Gordon Todd, counsel to the assistant attorney general, Civil Rights Division
Ryan Bound, chief of staff, Office of Legal Policy
Assistant to the Solicitor General John Elwood
Jamie Brown, Office of Professional Responsibility, former special assistant to President Bush, Legislative Affairs
Elisebeth Cook, Office of the Attorney General

U.S. SENATE

Sen. Dan Coats, R-Ind.

NON-GOVERNMENT

Ed Gillespie, Republican lobbyist and former chairman of the Republican National Committee
Theodore B. Olson, partner in Washington, D.C.'s Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, former Solicitor General
Adam Ciongoli, senior vice president and general counsel, Time Warner Inc., former Alito law clerk
Michael A. Carvin, partner in Washington, D.C.'s Jones Day, a former deputy assistant attorney general Office of Legal Counsel
Charles J. Cooper, partner in Washington, D.C.'s Cooper & Kirk, a former assistant attorney general Office of Legal Counsel
Timothy Flanigan, general counsel for corporate and international law, Tyco, a former deputy counsel to the President
Leonard Leo, Executive vice president of the Federalist Society
John Manning, Harvard Law

Source: Senate Judiciary Committee

http://www.law.com/jsp/scm/PubArticleSCM.jsp?id=1138356408625

[Tari]

18. Jimmy-Jeff-Guckert-Gannon's put on a few pounds.

[fooj]

10. Is that the pitbull Harriet over in the left-hand corner?

Oh, I bet she's just THRILLED for him.

Peace.

[dusmcj]

14. Alito was going for Doober's fly ?

What a bunch of tards.

Is that Harriet Myers on the far left (no pun intended) BTW ?

[trotsky]

15. 42 votes against.

Why bother voting against the fucker if you didn't have the spine to filibuster?

[Stephanie]

16. so you can have it both ways, obviously

so you don't have to stand for anything - that's hard work.

[laruemtt]

20. i don't believe in criticizing people on

their looks, but those are some freaky looking homo sapiens........ yuk!