General Resources

• Supreme Court Nominations: Selected Resources from the Library of Congress (links to full text when available)
  http://www.loc.gov/rr/law/alito.html

• Senate Confirmation Hearing J-101-6 including Alito's nomination as US Court of Appeals Judge for Third Circuit (March-April, 1990)
  http://www.loc.gov/rr/law/nominations/alito/shrg101-651pt5.pdf 
   

• Biography of Alito as released by the White House
  http://usinfo.state.gov/dhr/Archive/2005/Oct/31-520529.html

• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Papers on Samuel A. Alito, Jr. (in response to Senate request and FOIA filings.)
  http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/alito/index.htm 

• Patrick Leahy, United States Senator's Page of Links on Alito Confirmation (Leahy is a Democrat, but this site is linking to hearing transcripts and other Congressional resources.)
  http://leahy.senate.gov/issues/SupremeCourt/SCAlito.html
   

Background Resources

• Supreme Court (April 2005 issue of E-Journal, a publication of the US State Department)
  http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr/0405/ijde/ijde0405.htm
   

• White House News Release announcing Alito's nomination
  http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/10/20051031.html
   

• US State Department Information on the Confirmation Process (Roberts is example used--this is to inform the  international community about this process)
  http://usinfo.state.gov/usinfo/Archive/2005/Sep/07-535725.html
   

• US Senate Committee on the Judiciary
  http://judiciary.senate.gov/
   

• Senate Republican Conference (organization for all Republican Senators)
  http://src.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Issues.Home&Issue_id=6&CFID=41080448&CFTOKEN=99443770
   

• Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Supreme Court nomination hearings, 1971-forward
  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/congress/senate/judiciary/scourt.html 
   

• CQ Press In Context (Not a government-produced site)
  Note that the topics change periodically. If the "Future of the Supreme Court" page is no longer active, scroll down to the "Previous Posts" section to access.
   

In the CSUSM Collection

• Congressional Oversight of Judges and Justices
  Electronic Book from the CRS collection http://www.opencrs.com/document/RL32935
   

• The United States Supreme Court
  KF8742.Z9 U55 2005 
   

• A Year at the Supreme Court
  KF8742 .Y428 2004 
   

• Rehnquist Justice : Understanding the Court Dynamic
  KF8742 .R475 2003
   

• A People's History of the Supreme Court
  KF8742 .I76 2000 
   

CSUSM librarians are able to help you locate further resources!

• Hua Yi, Social Sciences

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