Alito, a Youthful Enemy of the Warren Court
The Washington Post details Alito's long-held antipathy to the segregation-ending court. | moreAlso, check out our extensive paper trail on the nominee. | linkWashington Post: It was May 3, 1971, the crest of the antiwar movement, and Washington was clogged with thousands of denim-and-fatigues-clad protesters demanding an end to the Vietnam War. Blocks from the Capitol, but far from the action, a handful of Princeton University undergraduates in sport coats found themselves in the wood-paneled chambers of Justice John M. Harlan.
Most saw the visit as a detour from their real purpose: to meet generals, lawmakers and diplomats and debate the justness of the war. One young man even dozed off.
But not Samuel A. Alito Jr. Harlan was the one person he wanted to meet when Princeton’s politics society arranged the trip. Now the clean-cut young man with dark-rimmed glasses was transfixed by the justice whose dissents from landmark liberal rulings of the Supreme Court had become his guideposts. | more
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Also, check out our extensive paper trail on the nominee, replete with rulings, memos, responses to the Senate Judiciary Committee questionnaire, and other related material. | link
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