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Alito’s Dirty Past

This is a list of past rulling from scAlito, From Here.

For the past 15 years, Samuel Alito has been a consistent conservative jurist on the Philadelphia-based 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a court with a reputation for being among the nation’s most liberal.

Alito, 55, brings a hefty legal resume that belies his age. He has served on the federal appeals court since 1990, when President George H.W. Bush nominated him to the bench.

Before that, Alito was U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey from 1987 to 1990, where his first assistant was a lawyer by the name of Michael Chertoff, now the Homeland Security secretary.

A look at some of Alito’s rulings on key issues likely to come up in Senate confirmation hearings:
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