David Kirkpatrick wrote about them in November in the NYTimes (November 27, 2005, “From Alito’s Past, a Window On Conservatives at Princeton”) and concluded: “Those records and others at Mudd Library at Princeton give no indication that Judge Alito, who sits on the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, was among the group’s major donors. He was not an active leader of the group, and two of his classmates who were involved and Mr. Rusher said they did not remember his playing a role.”