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Alito Energizes Right and Left

By Paul Kane
Roll Call Staff
Nov. 1, 2005, Midnight

Senate Democrats launched immediate attacks Monday on Judge Samuel Alito’s nomination to the Supreme Court, criticizing the rationale behind President Bush’s selection and setting the stage for the epic ideological battle that conservatives and liberals have been awaiting for five years.

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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing Wednesday.

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