Reaction Of Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.,
Ranking Member, Judiciary Committee,
On Recently Released Documents
Relating To The Nomination Of Samuel Alito
To The U.S. Supreme Court
November 14, 2005

“I’m concerned about documents that show an eager and early partisan in the ranks of ideological activists in his party’s extreme right wing.  He bragged about his support for the cut-throat politics of NCPAC, which largely invented the negative, slash-and-burn politics of the hard right and of the Republican Party’s ‘Southern Strategy.’  His 1985 job application for a political appointment in Ed Meese’s Justice Department shows a determined and aggressive participant in an ideological movement intended to withdraw discrimination protections from workers and even criticized the concept of one-person, one-vote, among other fundamental rights.

“Judge Alito has many questions to answer during his upcoming hearings before the Judiciary Committee.”

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