WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Confirmation hearings are to begin in January for Samuel Alito, President Bush's nominee for the Supreme Court seat now held by Sandra Day O'Connor, leaders of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday.When announcing Alito's nomination on Monday, President Bush called for a vote by the end of the year. The judiciary committee's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pennsylvania, and ranking member, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, announced Thursday that the hearings would begin on January 9. ...
Republican Sens. Mike DeWine of Ohio, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Olympia Snowe of Maine have said they don't see Alito triggering the "extraordinary circumstances" standard the group had set that could initiate a filibuster.
"Republican Sens. Mike DeWine of Ohio, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, and Olympia Snowe of Maine have said they don't see Alito triggering the "extraordinary circumstances" standard..."
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Ah HA! and Thanks!
Remember way back in May we had strong speculation that Snowe had given Graham assurances that she would stick with him on the nuke if the Dems went back on the MoU? It sounds very accurate now.