President Bush nominated Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
Judge Alito was widely reported to be on the short list of possible nominees. Common wisdom is that President Bush's base will strongly support the Alito nomination and most Democratic senators will not.
Judge Alito is a great nomination. Alito was put on the circuit court bench by President George H.W. Bush in 1990. He served as U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. Judge Alito also served as assistant to Solicitor General Rex E. Lee from 1981 to 1985, where he argued 12 cases before the Supreme Court. He was deputy assistant to Attorney General Edwin Meese from 1985 to 1987. Judge Alito graduated from Princeton in 1972 and earned his law degree from Yale in 1975.
James Joyner at Outside The Beltway has a nice roundup on Judge Alito's background.
Senate minority leader Harry Reid signaled senate Democrats will fight the Alito nomination, saying "the Senate needs to find out if the man replacing Miers is too radical for the American people."
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