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Flashback: Alito Touts His Empathy

05.29.09 -- 3:00PM

We've got video of Sam Alito's 2006 confirmation hearing where he goes on at some length about how he he can't help but relate immigration and discrimination cases before him to his own family's experiences. "I do take that into account," Alito told senators.

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