Thursday,
February 14, 2008
Justice Alito
Criticizes
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Kudos to US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito, who “gets it". Unfortunately Supreme
Court Justice Scalia doesn
Justice Alito Criticizes
By
Chris Newmarker, Associated Press
Thursday,
February 14, 2008
During
a visit to
"You
have a trifecta - gangsters, Italian-Americans,
Alito lived for nearly two decades in a West Caldwell
home in the same area of
"He
wanted me to put down where my house was on the map," Alito
said to laughs.
Alito
He
said the real story of Italian people who came here, some succeeding and some
failing and going back to
The
57-year-old Alito was born in
Last
year, Alito and his wife moved from West Caldwell to
northern
Alito said he was glad journalists scrutinized his
family history during his confirmation, giving him a free genealogy.
He
marveled how his father and grandmother arrived in the
"The
contrast of what I was doing there and what they looked like disembarking to
prominent Philadelphians is very striking to me," Alito
said.
Since
taking his seat on the court in January 2006, Alito
has generally sided with other conservative members of the court, including his
fellow
During
the talk, Alito did not discuss legal issues or any
of the cases the court has confronted during his tenure.
His
appearance came on the heels of a controversial interview by Scalia that aired
Tuesday on the British Broadcasting Corp. during which Scalia discussed harsh
Scalia
said aggressive interrogation techniques could be appropriate if authorities
needed to quickly learn where a bomb set to explode was located or discover the
location or plans of a terrorist group.
"It
seems to me you have to say, as unlikely as that is, it would be absurd to say
you couldn
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