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More on Justice Alito's climb out of the cert. pool

By Douglas A. Berman

I just noticed this Legal Times piece by Tony Mauro discussing Justice Samuel Alito notable (and in my view praiseworthy) decision to get out of the cert pool (first discussed here).  Here are snippets from the piece:Former clerks tell us he made the decision at the end of last term, roughly 2 1/2 years after joining the Court.  "Justice Alito wants to be helpful to the other justices in identifying, among the thousands of petitions that come in, those that are worthy of the Court's attention," said Jay Jorgensen, a Sidley Austin partner who clerked for Alito on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and for the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist.  "The easier thing to do would be to stay in the pool. I applaud him for doing this...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on October 01, 2008 (boomark / email).