One Law Clerk's View of Alito
Howard Bashman of How Appealing was on Radio Times the other day discussing Judge Alito's nomination. The audio is here.
During the segment, a caller who identified himself as a former law clerk for a 3rd Circuit Judge and a current law professor in Kentucky, noted that the judge he clerked for worked with Alito on a capital case in which Alito was in dissent. The caller said:
"It seemed like he put his thumb on the scale for the prosecution. ... He pored over the record to find facts and arguments the prosecution had never raised in its brief..."
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