More on Alito

At the press conference when President Bush announced his nomination to the Supreme Court, Judge Alito emphasized the immigration background of his parents from Italy in 1914 (following the great wave of Italian immigration in the first decade of the 20th century). That  background has not appeared to manifest itself in any pro-immigrant fashion as a jurist or at the Department of Justice. Some lawyers call the judge “Scalito.”Roughly translated, the nickname means “Little Scalia,”suggesting that Alito, a judge on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court ofAppeals, has modeled himself after Supreme Court Justice AntoninScalia.Access of profile of Judge Alito at Law.com 

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