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Tuesday, November 01, 2005


MEMO TO LIBERALS: "COFFEE BREAK'S OVER, BACK ON YOUR HEADS."

President Picks Judge on Appeals Court for O'Connor's Seat P

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31 - President Bush on Monday named Samuel A. Alito Jr., an Ivy League-educated federal appeals court judge with a conservative record on abortion and a history of prosecuting organized crime in New Jersey, to succeed Justice Sandra Day O'Connor on the Supreme Court.

Mr. Bush's announcement, only four days after his previous choice, Harriet E. Miers, withdrew under scathing attacks from conservatives, was largely celebrated by the right and condemned by the left. A confirmation fight appeared inevitable over the swing vote that could shift the balance of the court and change the laws of the nation well into the century.


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