A week of hearings. Fifteen years of judicial opinions, all available for review. But in all that, Alito's opponents have failed to unearth anything damaging--or even to elicit an intemperate remark from the judge, though they did succeed in making his wife cry. It's a wonder anyone is willing to endure this process.
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Alito's integrity, professional competence and judicial temperament "are of the highest standing." That was the judgment of the American Bar Association, reached after interviewing 300 people who know Alito and evaluating 350 of his written opinions and dozens of unpublished opinions, oral arguments and memos.

He "sees majesty in the law, respects it, and remains a dedicated student of it to this day." That, too, was the judgment of the ABA.

Alito is, as his colleague, federal Appellate Judge Edward R. Becker, testified, "a real judge deciding each case on the facts and the law, not on his personal views, whatever they may be."