"Voting Cases Could Shape Debate Over Alito"

The Wall Street Journal offers this report, with the subhead: "Court Nominee's Views on Reapportionment Decisions Puzzle Scholars, Anger His Critics." I had predicted last Monday that this issue would become important once the 1985 document was released expressing the judge's view on the Warren Court reapportionment cases. And now AP reports: "The views that Samuel Alito expressed on reapportionment in a 20-year-old document could jeopardize his Supreme Court nomination and provoke a filibuster, a leading Democratic senator said Sunday.
'I think he's got a lot of explaining to do, and depending on how he does, I think will determine whether or not he has a problem or not,' said Sen. Joseph Biden, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which plans confirmation hearings in early January."

Posted by Rick Hasen at November 20, 2005 07:10 PM