http://www.TimothyHorrigan.com/
On January 9, 2006, the leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee issued a list of the outside witnesses for the Alito confirmation hearings. According to the original schedule, Senators Leahy & Specter were hoping to get Alito's own testimony out of the way within two days.
I went and Googled most of the
witnesses. One relatively little-known witness is worth mentioning
because she is being used by the Republicans to illustrate the
(supposed) futility of the anti-Alito effort. The
pro-Alito Republicans have been making frequent vague references to a
Kerry campaign lawyer who has endorsed Alito. She
supposedly epitomizes a (nonexistent) wave of grassroots liberal
support for Alito's nomination. Her name is Kate
Pringle and she is
a Partner with Friedman,
Kaplan, Seiler and Adelman LLP
in New York City. Ms. Pringle did do some work for the Kerry for
President campaign in 2004, and also for Florida Democrats in 2000,
but she never actually joined either Gore's or Kerry's campaign
staff. And she has an understandable personal reason for endorsing
Alito: she served as one of his law clerks after graduating from the
Georgetown Law Center in 1993.
For more info, see my Supreme Court page:
[spokespersons for the American Bar Association]
Stephen
L. Tober, Esq.
Chairman
American
Bar Association
Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary
Portsmouth, NH
Marna
Tucker
D.C. Circuit Representative
American
Bar Association
Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary
Washington, DC
John
Payton
Federal Circuit Representative
American
Bar Association
Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary
Washington, DC
PANEL II
[Alito's Appeals Court colleagues]
The
Honorable Edward R. Becker
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge (Senior)
Philadelphia, PA
The
Honorable Anthony J. Scirica
Chief Judge
U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Third District
Philadelphia, PA
The
Honorable Maryanne Trump Barry
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge
Philadelphia, PA
The
Honorable Ruggero J. Aldisert
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge
(Senior)
Philadelphia, PA
The
Honorable Leonard I. Garth
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge (Senior)
Chicago, IL
The
Honorable John J. Gibbons
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge (Retired)
Director
Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione
Newark, NJ
The
Honorable Timothy K. Lewis
U.S. Court of Appeals Judge (Retired)
Counsel
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
Washington,
DC
PANEL III
[Various lawyers and law professors, all specializing in civil rights and the Supreme Court]
Michael
J. Gerhardt
The Samuel Ashe Distinguished Professor of
Constitutional Law
University of North Carolina School of Law
Chapel Hill, NC
Peter
Kirsanow
Commissioner
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Partner
Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan and Aronoff LLP
Cleveland, OH
Samuel
Issacharoff
The Bonnie and Richard Reiss Professor of
Constitutional Law
New York University School of Law
New
York, NY
Carter
Phillips
Managing Partner
Sidley Austin LLP
Washington,
DC
Goodwin
Liu
Assistant Professor of Law
University of California
Berkeley, CA
PANEL
IV
Nora
Demleitner
Professor of Law
Hofstra University School of
Law
Hempstead, NY
Erwin
Chemerinsky
The Alston & Bird Professor of Law
Professor
of Political Science
Duke University Law School
Durham, NC
Anthony
Kronman
The Sterling Professor of Law
Yale Law School
former
Dean of Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Beth Nolan
Partner
Crowell & Moring LLP’s Litigation Group
Counsel to the President 1999 - 2001
Washington, DC
The
Honorable Charles
Fried
Former Solicitor General of the United States
Beneficial Professor of Law
Harvard Law School
Cambridge,
MA
Laurence
H. Tribe
Professor of Constitutional Law
Harvard Law School
Cambridge, MA
PANEL V
Fred
Gray
Senior Partner
Gray, Langford, Sapp, McGowan, Gray &
Nathanson
Tuskeegee, AL
Kate
Michelman
Former President
National
Abortion and Reproductive Rights Action League (NARAL) Pro-Choice
America
Washington, DC
Ronald S.
Sullivan, Jr.
Associate Clinical Professor of Law and Supervising
Attorney
Yale Law School
New Haven, CT
Amanda
Frost
Assistant Professor of Law
American University
Washington College of Law
American University
Washington, DC
John G. S.
Flym
Retired Professor of Law
Northeastern University School
of Law
Boston, MA
PANEL
VI
Kate
Pringle
Partner
Friedman,
Kaplan, Seiler and Adelman LLP
New York, NY
The
Honorable Charles
A. Gonzalez
United States Representative (D-TX, 20th
District)
The
Honorable Debbie
Wasserman Schultz
United States Representative (D-FL, 20th
District)
Jack
White
Associate
Kirkland and Ellis LLP
San Francisco,
CA
Reginald
M. Turner, Jr.
President
National
Bar Association
Washington, DC
Theodore
Shaw
President
NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Washington, DC
