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Samuel Alito Nomination (Archive)

Confirmed on January 31, 2006
U.S. Supreme Court

Feature Stories

• In a Close Vote, Senate Confirms Supreme Court Nominee Alito - 1/31/06
• Judiciary Committee Sends Controversial Nominee Alito to Full Senate - 1/24/06
• The Alito Playbook: Decline, Distance, and Dodge  - 1/13/06
• Alito on the Record - 1/11/06
• Alito Expected to Face Tough Questions - 1/10/06
• Alito Hearings to Begin Today - 1/9/06
• New Alito Opposition Efforts Launched - 1/4/06
• Alito Opposition Grows - 12/21/05
• LCCR Opposes Alito - 11/17/05
• New Ad Focuses on Right Wing's Role in President's Choice of Supreme Court Nominee Alito - 11/17/05
• Bush Names Samuel Alito to Supreme Court  - 10/31/05

Fact Sheets & Reports

• Judge Samuel Alito’s Disturbing Record on Civil Rights - 1/5/06
• Alito's Disagreement With the "One Person, One Vote" Rulings - 12/8/05

Press Releases

• Alito Confirmation to Take Heavy Toll on Civil Rights Gains - 1/31/06
• America Loses with Premature Shut Down of Alito Debate - 1/30/06
• Shutting Down Debate on a Nomination that Will Tip the Scales - 1/26/06
• Civil Rights Coalition Calls on Senate to Stop Alito - 1/24/06
• Henderson Statement on Concerned Alumni of Princeton - 1/11/06
• Judge Alito: His Actions Speak Louder Than His Words  - 1/10/06
• Civil Rights Coalition Releases Memo Critical of Alito's Record on Civil Rights - 1/5/06
• Nation's Premier Civil Rights Coalition Announces Opposition to Alito's Supreme Court Nomination - 11/17/05
• Pressured by the Radical Right, Bush Nominates Right Wing Judicial Activist - 10/31/05

Advocacy Letters

• Oppose Cloture on Alito Nomination - 1/27/06
• Opposition to the Confirmation of Samuel Alito - 1/6/06
• LCCR's Opposition to the Confirmation of Samuel Alito - 1/6/06
• Opposition to the Confirmation of Samuel A. Alito, Jr.  - 11/17/05

Other Resources

• U.S. Senate Roll Call Vote On the Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
• Post-Hearing Report on the Nomination of Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court: 'The Wrong Nominee at the Wrong Time' (pdf) - People For the American Way - 1/20/06
• Judge Samuel Alito's Testimony About Workplace Rights (pdf) - Report - National Employment Lawyers Association - 1/17/06
• Judge Samuel Alito (pdf) - Report - YWCA USA - 1/13/06
• The Constitution and the Environment: A Report on the Troubling Record of Judge Samuel A. Alito (pdf) - Community Rights Counsel - 1/9/06
• Judge Samuel Alito: Hostile to Civil Rights in the Workplace (pdf) - Report - National Employment Lawyers Association - 1/6/06
• Report on the Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to the U.S. Supreme Court (pdf) - National Urban League - 1/5/06
• The Record and Legal Philosophy of Samuel Alito: "No One to the Right of Sam Alito on this Court" (pdf) - Report - People For the American Way - 1/4/06
• Judge Alito's Nomination Threatens Safeguards for the Environment and Public Health (pdf) - Fact Sheet - Earthjustice - 12/20/05
• Judge Alito's Nomination Threatens Access to Justice (pdf) - Fact Sheet - Earthjustice - 12/20/05
• Judge Alito's Nomination Threatens Congressional Authority to Protect the Environment (pdf) - Fact Sheet - Earthjustice - 12/20/05
• Tipping the Balance: The Record of Samuel Alito and What's at Stake for Women - Report - National Partnership for Women and Families - 12/20/05
• Report on the Nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court of the United States (pdf) - NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. - 12/20/05
• The Alito Opinions (pdf) - Report - Alito Project at the Yale Law School - 12/19/05
• Report Opposing Confirmation of Samuel A. Alito Jr. as Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court - Report - Americans United for Separation of Church and State - 12/16/05
• The Nomination of Samuel Alito: A Watershed Moment for Women (pdf) - Report - National Women's Law Center - 12/15/05
• Judge Alito and the Death Penalty (pdf) - Report - American Constitution Society for Law and Policy - 12/14/05
• Report on the Nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., to Be Associate Justice on the United States Supreme Court (pdf) - ACLU - 12/9/05
• Backgrounder on Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito (pdf) - Violence Policy Center - 11/2/05
• The Record of Samuel Alito: A Preliminary Review (pdf) - People For the American Way - 10/31/05