Bush: Judge Samuel Alito is new choice for Supreme Court nominee

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[kcvl]

Per Fox News...

[Brian Allen]

<< ALITO IS A RINO!

BUSH IS A RINO!

WHINE WHINE WHINE WHINE WHINE >>

Alito is not.

So you're only half Right.

[Is the other half your compassionate side, too?]

[mewzilla]

Per FNC's Judge Napolitano: Alito is modest, shy, a conservative intellectual in the tradition of Roberts, whose voting record would be comparable to Scalia's.

Life is good.

[Drammach]

Not sure where you get the idea Maiers would have been a conservative..

GW Bush is a republican but he is a Moderate.. he has never been a conservative, he just uses the word in his speeches a lot..

On another note, Fox's Judge Napolitano turns out to be a classmate of Alito's.. and knows him "very well"..
Napolitano seems to be highly supportive of the nomination..
Not sure if that is good or bad at this juncture.

[AFPhys]

Whether WE like it or not, if Specter nixes a judicial nominee, that person WILL be defeated.

McLame, Chaffee, Warner, Collins and Snowe WILL join him.

Result: 49-51 against.

Only the earlier (apparent) "deal" by the President and Frist that kept him in charge of the judiciary committee has kept him on board. Now that Miers has been denied her "up-or-down" vote, he can justifiably make the case that a nominee is not necessarily entitled to a vote.

I wasn't really crazy about Miers, but denying her a vote was a disaster in the making for sometime in the future.

[Blogger]

Prairie dogs would make better jurists than some of the geeks they have on the bench right now!

[kcvl]

a subtle smack at us

Oh, please.

[Cboldt]

Yes, it will probably take the Nuclear Option to get him through.

I predict enough DEMs will swing over and vote in favor of cloture, so that the nuclear option remains naught but a credible deterreant to cloture abuse.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Just dropped by DU to see what they were saying. Apparently, they get their breaking news from, drum roll, the BBC. Hateful! The fight is on and a good one it will be. The nuclear option will be used....IMHO! The gang of 14 will be left, no pun intended, with egg on their collective faces!

[TheForceOfOne]

I hear Miers help make this choice.

Some here outright hate the president, I don't. I don't agree with all his policies and I have no problem with conservatives displaying their displeasure on these issues but it always seems to go beyond the issue and morphs into a personal attack on him, Laura, etc. truly distasteful and classless comments pile on one after another.

They alienate and divide segments the base instead of honest and thoughtful debate.

[mainepatsfan]

If those RINO's balk on this they need to be defeated if not in a primary then in a general election.

[A Jovial Cad]

If I were French I'd say: touche.

Since I'm not, I'll just state: you have a point. A valid one.

I'm still thrilled at this announcement, nevertheless.

Time to fight.

[no dems]

Gee, maybe Graham has some 'nads after all. Surprise, surprise!

[SpringheelJack]

My point is that you cannot infer anything about Alito's personal views on abortion from his decision in the case. Nor was his decision "anti-abortion," as CNN described it. It simply was a finding that the husband-notification statute was not unconstitutional.

It's anti-abortion. It fruitlessly endorsed limits on what the Supreme Court currently holds to be a far more expansive personal right.

There could be another case in which Alito would have ruled on the other side. Would that make him "pro-abortion"?

It would certainly be a pro-abortion decision. Is there such a case? I think you and I would be both be shocked if there was.

[dawn53]

The DUmmies think it was the plan all along, LOL.

Those guys have to find a conspiracy behind everything.

The conspiracy theory goes: nominate Miers, show to the world you really wanted a woman, not a staunch male constitutionalist, then let the base scream, and then appoint your REAL choice.

Truly a plot of Rovian magnitutde, right up there with that weather machine of his.

[airborne]

Still a few problems remain, Alito would potentially replace Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. O’Connor was often the swing-vote on ethical issues making it a 5-4 win for the left side but with Alito as replacement this would swing the votes entirely the other way.

Hee hee! I don't see a problem! ;^)

[SE Mom]

Dissents regularly on one of the most liberal courts in the country...known as quiet, modest, brilliant...Reid is strongly opposed..

Can it get better?

Listening to Judge Napalitano on FOX...he is a friend of Alito's...he speaks VERY highly of him...

[YourAdHere]

Glad to see Bush wasn't pressured to pick a woman solely because she was a woman.

[livius]

They'll no doubt obssess on the Catholic issue. Probably the reason there are so many Catholics is that Catholics of the generation now in their 50s grew up under a much more rigorously rational, law-oriented Church and had considerable formation in things like debating and philosophy. Going into the legal field was a natural, and there are probably disproportionate numbers of Catholics in that field. (Incidentally, I don't think this is still true - the modern Church, unfortunately, is as soft and squishy intellectually as every other Christian church).

[SauronOfMordor]

At 8 oclock we will find out if that's his real pick, or if Bush did a "rope a dope" to find a leaker in his administration

[alnick]

A fair number of Miers supporters (i don't keep notes as to which) asserted either that if Miers is dropped, President Bush would nominate somebody worse, e.g., Gonzales; or that they HOPED President Bush would nominate Gonzales in order to spite the people who voiced objection to the Miers nomination.

Yes, I was unclear, but I had noticed that and disagreed with them, although I did support the idea of allowing the Miers hearing to happen and was disgusted by the nastiness of much of the anti-Miers sentiment.

My comment was more toward the general rumors about Gonzales each and every time there's an SC opening. People have worried themselves silly over something about which there was not an iota of evidence may occur.