New Clerk for Alito Has a Long Paper Trail

Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., who was so bland and self-effacing at his Supreme Court confirmation hearings last month, made a bold decision on arriving at the court. He hired Adam G. Ciongoli, a former top aide to Attorney General John Ashcroft and an architect of the Bush administration's legal strategy after the September 11, 2001, attacks, to be one of his law clerks.

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