Alito Musings

Note: I was going to title this entry, "Alito Droppings," but decided against it. Aren't you glad? So there's a now SCOTUS nominee in town. GWB has re-emerged, fresh from the wounds he suffered over the course of the Harriet Miers nomination debacle, and put forth the name of Sam Alito, an appeals court judge with seemingly solid credentials. Well, law credentials that is. At least he had been working in Constitutional Law as opposed to Miers. I'm not fully up on my appeals court judges, so I don't have any commentary of my own on this nomination ... yet. But I will direct you to some of the better commentary I have found around the blogosphere (mostly courtesy of Heretical Ideas, Running Scared, and Middle Earth Journal).

• SCOTUSblog: Rundown of Alito's Key Decisions
• Blue Mass. Group: One Liberal's Positive View of Alito
• Running Scared: Alito *may* not be the nightmare for liberals that some fear
• Think Progress's Opening Salvo
• The Moderate Voice: Joe Gandelman -- The Big Battle Begins?
• Scalito the Extremist
• Smijer & Buck: Buck Ponders Alito and decides that he can't be all bad. Really.

I'm sure I missed a few other good posts, but this list will at least get you moving in the direction of getting informed.