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Norm Ornstein: Sam Alito is No John Roberts
American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Norm Ornstein hits the Alito ball out of the park with a powerful, incisive op-ed today in Roll Call.
Essentially, Ornstein makes the key point that Alito is hostile to Congress and its role in our system of government. Alito, like Harriet Miers, is a spear-carrier for expansive Executive Branch authority and looks at both Congress and the Judiciary as junior players in government…
Posted by: Outraged | Nov 2 2005 17:56 utc | 1
And Alita was also a standup guy about it — he stood up in front of the cameras after the trial and accepted full responsibility.
Maybe so, but I’ll lay odds you never saw such a relieved losing prosecutor in all your life…
Posted by: bcf | Nov 2 2005 21:09 utc | 2