This morning, Yale Law professors and students are releasing a report examining in detail the judicial opinions of Samuel Alito, President Bush’s choice for the Supreme Court. Judge Alito himself graduated from Yale Law in 1975. The report summarizes its conclusions as follows:
“We identified several trends in Judge Alito’s judicial approach: he rules in favor of institutional actors and defers to agency decisions in many settings while showing skepticism toward individual litigants’ claims; he appears to support a narrow view of civil rights, prisoners’ rights, and workers’ rights but a broad view of religious freedoms; he appears willing to uphold legislative restrictions on abortion; and he is willing to limit congressional power. When able, he has sought to move the law to achieve the broad philosophical purposes articulated in the memorandum he submitted in November 1985 as part of his application to become Deputy Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel.”
Campus Progress has much more on Judge Alito at our Alito’s America website.