Is That Legal?

ok, probably not Alito. But wasn't it your first thought when you heard that "Harriet Miers" was nominatd, and her best pal was "Nathan Hecht"?

He is Italian ...

"The White House selection process for future Supreme Court vacancies, as reported in the NY Times*, unfairly limits Americans of Italian descent. It appears that President Bush’s senior staff members do not consider Italian Americans as mainstream, but rather an ethnic group subject to a quota. According to the report filed by NY Times correspondent Neil Lewis, the prime reason that candidate Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. is being sidetracked has to do with the fact that there is "already an Italian-American on the Supreme Court, Justice Antonin Scalia.” "
http://italic.org/supreme.htm

Are you joking or is this correct? The title of your post is already making rounds on the blogs as teh Truth.

No, but that's not stopping his backers from claiming ethnic persecution...

It's nice to get a break from spurious charges of anti-Semitism for awhile, though this of course comes at the expense of the many Italian-Americans out there crying BS right now.

He's not. Or, as my in-laws once said of me, "he's not, but he's very intelligent."

Doew it conceren anyone that Amuel Alito's confirmation will place a majority of Roman Catholics on the Supreme Court for the first time i our history. By longstanding custom and tradition there was always not more than one Catholic and one Jew. There are only two Protestants left on the Court, both Episcopalians. When Bush sought to appoint an evangelical Christian of Campellite roots all hell broke loose and the furor continued until she was withdrawn. The public attacks against her consisited primarily of the fact that she had (like most former members of the Court) not been a judge. The sincerity of her religious beliefs was never questioned, nor the fact that she had repeatedly been named as one of the 100 finest lawyers in America. William Morris