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Election Law Blog

January 20, 2006

Judge Alito's Views of Election Law: Clarified Only a Bit By His Written Responses to Judiciary Committee Questionnaire

Responses to Judiciary Committee Questionnaire

by Rick Hasen

Howard Bashman has posted Judge Alito's answers to certain written questions posed to him by some Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. A few of the questions from Sen. Schumer related to election law. Here is a brief summary:

1. Sen. Schumer asked (pdf 32-33) for Judge Alito's reaction to a statement supposedly made by Justice Scalia that the Court had to take Bush v. Gore or else it would have given the Florida Supreme Court "another couple of weeks in which the United States could look ridiculous." Judge Alito failed to respond directly to the question, instead giving a general answer about the breadth of the Supreme Court's ability to grant cert. on important questions.

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Bottom line: We continue to know very little about Judge Alito's views of election law.

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