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I could go on and on, but you get the idea – this list doesn’t paint quite the same picture as those other lists. Now, does this prove that Alito is in fact a closet super-liberal who will unexpectedly break to the left if he is confirmed? Of course not – we can most likely expect Alito to be a pretty reliable conservative on the Supreme Court (though I have no doubt that he, like every other Justice in the history of the Supreme Court, will from time to time surprise and disappoint those who backed his nomination). All that this – or any of the other “lists” floating around – can prove is that Alito has been a judge for a long time; that he has decided a lot of tough cases that could have gone either way; and that you should be very careful about reading too much into selective “case summaries” proffered by interest groups with an agenda.
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