Patrick Leahy actually said...

I wonder whether he was one Samuel Alito in the 1980s, a different one today, whether he's running away from his record.

I can't find anyone who thinks the so-called data-mining aspect of the secret surveillance program is legal.

We are a democracy. Let's have checks and balances, not secret orders and secret courts.

The new documents showed Alito to be an eager and early partisan in the ranks of ideological activists in his party's extreme right wing.