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By DAVID D.
KIRKPATRICK
Published: November 8, 2005
Soon after Judge Samuel A.
Alito Jr.
joined the Philadelphia federal appeals court 15 years ago, Judge Edward Becker invited him to his home in the city's Frankford neighborhood for a dinner with Senator Arlen Specter.
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Jamie Rose for The New York Times
"I have to form an independent judgment," Senator Arlen Specter, shown here in his Capitol Hill office, said of Judge Samuel A.
Alito Jr.
Judge Alito and his wife brought candlesticks as a gift, Judge Becker re...
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