| Subject: Electionlawblog news and commentary 11/21/05 |
| From: Rick Hasen |
| Date: 11/21/2005, 6:39 AM |
| To: election-law |
Roll Call offers this
report (paid subscription required). My earlier coverage is here.
The Wall Street Journal offers this
report, with the subhead: "Court Nominee's Views on Reapportionment
Decisions Puzzle Scholars, Anger His Critics." I had predicted
last Monday that this issue would become important once the 1985
document was released expressing the judge's view on the Warren Court
reapportionment cases. And now AP reports:
"The views that Samuel Alito expressed on reapportionment in a
20-year-old document could jeopardize his Supreme Court nomination and
provoke a filibuster, a leading Democratic senator said Sunday.
'I think he's got a lot of explaining to do, and depending on how he
does, I think will determine whether or not he has a problem or not,'
said Sen. Joseph Biden, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
which plans confirmation hearings in early January."
Steven Hill offers this
oped in the San Jose Mercury News.
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