Re: Fa,ily values

[Robert <Robert@xxxxxxx>]

Doug wrote:
> "Robert L Bass" <robertbass1@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> republican ethics
>> The GOP sez: Lies are OK as long as they're our lies.
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>>  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.
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>>  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.
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>>  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.
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>>  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.
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