Dems have dirt on ScAlito!!! And they will use it!
by EZ writer
Thu Jan 05, 2006 at 08:43:56 PM PDT
Alito's honesty questioned. Looks like the Democrats have got some significant ammo.
The New York Times will have this on Friday:
WASHINGTON -- Signaling their intent to put up a tough fight in next week's hearings on the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., Senate Democrats said Thursday that they will call at least two witnesses who could question his personal credibility as well several experts on civil rights and constitutional law.
One witness is John G.S. Flym, a legal scholar. In 2002, Flym served as counsel to a plaintiff suing the mutual fund company Vanguard in a case that came before Alito on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The other witness expected to address Alito's character is Stephen R. Dujack, a journalist who has criticized a conservative alumni group to which Alito belonged. The group, Concerned Alumni of Princeton, opposed the university's admission of women, criticized its affirmative action policies and urged the admission of more alumni children. It went out of business around 1987.
In a meeting with reporters Thursday, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., also a member of the Judiciary Committee, called Concerned Alumni of Princeton "anti-black" and "anti-women," and questioned why Alito had failed to mention his membership in response to the Senate questionnaire for his confirmation to the federal appeals court.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/1/5/224356/9396