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BBC News: Bush choice sets up court battle

Some notes from Time.com’s: Why Bush Picked Alito

• Another Catholic. Attends Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament in Roseland, N.J.
• Argued 12 cases before the Supremes, and has presented at least two dozen before federal courts of appeal
• Has written opinions on the Commerce Clause; the First Amendment (free speech, establishment clause and free exercise clause); the Fourth, Eighth and Eleventh amendments; and the Fourteenth Amendment (procedural due process and substantive due process). Oh, and then there are his writings on administrative law, criminal law, immigration, the False Claims Act, the Freedom of Information Act, and securities and prison litigation.
• Conservatives assert that Alito “has more federal judicial experience than 105 of the 109 Supreme Court Justices appointed in U.S. history.”
• Sen. Charles Schumer called Alito “controversial,” and said he has real questions about the judge’s record on civil rights, women’s rights AND workers’ rights. “It’s sad that [Bush] felt he had to pick a nominee likely to divide America.”

The moniker ‘Scalito’ might not be a fit.

The SCOTUSblog provides additional info and links on Alito