Alito Hearing Wrap-Up

One final post on my obsessive analysis of the Alito hearing transcripts. Below is a list of a few selected people, cases, and concepts mentioned during the Alito hearing, with the number of mentions in parentheses. These are not necessarily unique mentions, and I’ve probably missed a few major topics, but the list gives a good general idea of the course of the hearings.

Roe v. Wade (202) … Stare Decisis (140) … Justice Sandra Day O'Connor (135) … Vanguard (126) … Princeton (102) … Chief Justice John Roberts (103) … CAP (Concerned Alumni of Princeton) (69) … Casey v. Planned Parenthood (68) … Unitary Executive (67) … Commerce Clause/Interstate Commerce (65) … Fourth Amendment (54) … Ronald Reagan (52) … William Rehnquist (42) … Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (39) … Rybar v. U.S. (36) … Justice Antonin Scalia (34) … Justice Clarence Thomas (33) … Earl Warren (or Warren court) (33) … Plessy v. Ferguson (33) … Death Penalty (31) … Hamdi Decision (31) … First Amendment (31) … Robert Bork (29) … Reapportionment (29) … Griswold v. Connecticut (25) … Fourteenth Amendment (25) … Immigration Law (22) … ROTC (20) … Justice David Souter (20) … Brown v. Board of Education (20) … Justice Stephen Breyer (18) … Federalist Society (17) … Establishment Clause (17) … Harriet Miers (14) … Fifth Amendment (14) … ACLU (13) … Iran (13) … Bill Clinton (12) … Marbury v. Madison (11) … Kelo v. City of New London (10) … Justice John Paul Stephens (10) … Doe v. Groody (10) … Geneva Convention (10) … McCain Torture Amendment (10) … Article III (10) … Richard Nixon (10) … Justice Anthony Kennedy (9) … Miranda v. Arizona (9) … Reeves v. Sanderson Plumbing (9) … Bill of Rights (9) … Article II (9) … Judge Michael Luttig (8) … 9/11 (8) … Iraq (8) … William Rusher (7) … Bush v. Gore (7) … Eighth Amendment (7) … Antitrust law (7) … U.S. v. Kithcart (6) … Jimmy Carter (6) … Harry Blackmun (6) … Thurgood Marshall (6) … Sixth Amendment (6) … Impeachment (6) … Alexander Hamilton (5) … Benjamin Cardozo (5) … International Law (5) … Tax Law (5) … Willima Brennan (5) … Brinson v. Vaughn (4) … John Marshall (4) … 11th Amendment (4) … Afghanistan (4) … Lemon v. Kurtzman (4) … Federalist Papers (3) … Harlow v. Fitzgerald (3) … Baker v. Monroe Township (3) … Zubi v. AT&T Corporation (3) … Goosby v. Johnson & Johnson (3) … Dia v. Ashcroft (3) … Bruce Springsteen (3) … Bible (3) … Knight-Ridder (3) … Catholic (3) … Article I (3) … Scalito (2) … Grutter v. Bollinger (2) … Stenberg v. Carhart (2) … Williams v. Price (2) … Smith v. Davis (2) … Baker v. Carr (2) … Rosa Parks (2) … Ninth Amendment (2) … Tenth Amendment (2) … Guantanamo Bay (2) … Blogs (2) … Civil Rights Act (2) … Learned Hand (1) … Louis Brandeis (1) … Lochner v. New York (1) … Bowers v. Hardwick (1) … Lawrence v. Texas (1) … Buckley v. Valeo (1) .. Bakke Decision (1) … Al Qaida (1) … 27th Amendment (1) … 10 Commandments (1) … France (1) … Monkeys (1) … Watergate (1)

NOT MENTIONED:
Dred Scott … Brokeback Mountain … International Criminal Court … Chappaquiddick … Paris Hilton … KKK (Ku Kulx Klan) … James Madison … Learned Foot … John Jay … Koran … Natural Law … Halliburton … McCulloch v. Maryland … New York Times v. Sullivan … Patents or Copyrights

The Following Constitutional Amendments weren’t mentioned by name (or number):
2, 3, 7, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26