Some groups are up in arms over the references to Judge Samuel Alito as "Scalito." I don't get it. What's so offensive about Scalito?
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Steve
November 1, 2005 at 7:33PM
It’s an attempt to make the Democrats look anti-Italian and anti-Catholic. No one mentions the name Scalito was bestowed upon the judge in 1992 in a law review article.
Mr. T
November 3, 2005 at 3:40PM
On C-SPAN yesterday there was some footage of Leahy talking to Alito when he was making rounds on Capitol Hill, and Leahy was asking questions like “Do you speak Italian?” and asking about Alito’s parents so on. Although it was clearly meant to be conversational and not malicious, it did strike me as being at least a little clumsy - at worst simply rude - to ask questions of someone you don’t really know like that in front of TV cameras and about 2 dozen photographers and journalists. Was Roberts asked similar questions?
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It’s an attempt to make the Democrats look anti-Italian and anti-Catholic. No one mentions the name Scalito was bestowed upon the judge in 1992 in a law review article.
On C-SPAN yesterday there was some footage of Leahy talking to Alito when he was making rounds on Capitol Hill, and Leahy was asking questions like “Do you speak Italian?” and asking about Alito’s parents so on. Although it was clearly meant to be conversational and not malicious, it did strike me as being at least a little clumsy - at worst simply rude - to ask questions of someone you don’t really know like that in front of TV cameras and about 2 dozen photographers and journalists. Was Roberts asked similar questions?
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