The GOP sez: Lies are OK as long as they're our lies.
In a written response to questions from the US Senate during his 1990 confirmation hearings to be an appeals judge, Samuel Alito promised: ''I would disqualify myself from any case involving my sister's law firm, Carpenter, Bennett & Morrissey of Newark, New Jersey." His sister left that firm in 1994, and she said yesterday that she joined McCarter & English in March 1994 -- about a year before the full court denied a rehearing in the bank-loan case.
Samuel Alito's promise to disqualify himself from hearing cases in which he faced a potential conflict of interest has become a focal point for Democratic critics as they prepare for his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in January.
In his questionnaire, provided to the Senate during his confirmation hearings as an appeals court judge, Samuel Alito cited four types of cases in which he would disqualify himself to avoid a potential conflict of interest: those involving Vanguard, in which he owned mutual fund shares; Smith Barney, his brokerage firm; First Federal Savings & Loan of Rochester, N.Y., which held his home mortgage; and his sister's law firm.
Alito ruled in a 2002 case in Vanguard's favor at a time when he owned between $390,000 and $975,000 in mutual fund shares from Vanguard.
What will we tell the children?
Never mind, they're running the country.
posted by Jo Fish on 11.10.05 at 06:48 PM
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I guess these spoiled brat kiddies have decided that on the whole, liars are much more successful at money-making, especially if they believe their own lies.
posted by: Nina on 11.11.05 at 08:21 AM [permalink]
The GOP sez: Lies are OK as long as they're our lies.
They should take their cue from Dizzy Dean. When Dean was accused of, um, padding his stories to reporters with statements of dubious truth, he replied, "Them ain't lies; them's scoops!"
