It appears that the dissent Alito wrote in Casey is going to play very heavily in the discussion on his confirmation. So here’s a link to it and a bit of the essence:
My disagreement with the majority regarding a single provision of the Pennsylvania Abortion Control Act, 18 Pa.Cons.Stat.Ann. § 3201 et seq. (1983 & [...]
The Supreme Court has declined to get involved in the Eolas case:
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Monday refused to hear an appeal from Microsoft Corp. challenging the methodology under which damages were calculated in a patent lawsuit filed by Eolas Technologies Inc. and the University of California over features in the software giant’s Web [...]
Here’s one of those “end of an era” things:
America Online co-founder Steve Case resigned from the board of Time Warner Inc., five years after the media giant’s painful merger with the Internet service he helped create.
The AOL takeover of Time/Warner was emblematic of the irrational exuberance of the dot com bubble (some would say “swindle”), [...]
I’m sure the endorsement of the Gun Owners of America will help Judge Alito:
Judge Samuel Alito, Jr., in the Third Circuit, has argued that Congress has no right to regulate the private possession of machine guns.
Cool.
HT Billy the Quick
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The dude is a federalist:
In the early 1990s, Alito was the lone dissenter in
Planned Parenthood v. Casey, a case in which the 3rd Circuit struck down a Pennsylvania law that included a provision requiring women seeking abortions to notify their spouses.
…and only 55 years old.
The hysterical reaction is going to be fun to watch. [...]
One of the crazy factoids that’s buzzing around the left side of the blogosphere says that Fitzgerald’s investigation into the Joe Wilson matter only cost $723,000. It’s been on Daily Kos and 30 other blogs, and widely used by Air Hysteria’s hosts. It’s based on a sloppy reading of a story in the Washington Post:
In [...]
Politechnical nails it:
Not Scooter Libby! I’m crying now. When I voted for Bush, Libby’s presence in the administration was key to my vote. I had been 99% for John Kerry until I learned that Libby would be staying over in a second Bush administration. Well, that’s enough for me.
Heh heh heh.
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Whoopee! Moveon.org, the organization that was started to protect Bill Clinton from the consequences of lying to a Grand Jury, is on the warpath to promote the idea that lying to a Grand Jury really is a big deal after all.
So what’s going to be more fun, liberals changing their tune about lying, or conservatives [...]
Special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald spends two years investigating press leaks and comes away with nothing more than a face-saving indictment on a charge slightly more serious than jaywalking.
There was no charge for any crime directly related to the disclosure of any secret identity or any misuse of classified information. The official in question, Scooter [...]
The coolest thing about the defeat of the Miers nomination is seeing neo-blogger Hugh Hewitt get all self-righteous in his whining about how close it brings us to the collapse of civilization as we know it. And it’s right for Hewitt to complain, because the Miers defeat (or victory, if you oppose incompetence on [...]
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