Note: Not all the following materials are issued by US government agencies
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
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
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of the Supreme Court" page is no longer active, scroll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.
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
Judith Downie, Humanities and Government Documents Librarian.