Alito Appears Headed for Confirmation (Alito done for now, witnesses up this afternoon)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 1/12/06 | Jesse J. Holland - ap

[NormsRevenge]

NO, vote would be sometime next week at earliest..

[msnimje]

"No Senator Kohl, my family does not own a chain of Department Stores but I am still way smarter than you and don't you forget it."

[NormsRevenge]

This week's Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing shcedule

http://judiciary.senate.gov/schedule.cfm

Monday
1/9/2006 Full Committee "Nomination of Samuel A. Alito, Jr. to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States "

Thursday
1/12/2006 Full Committee "Supreme Court Witness List for Thursday, January 12, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. "

[msnimje]

I believe the Committee Vote will be Tuesday and the Senate floor vote on the 20th. Specter already added the extra week into the schedule so Senators cannot avail themselves of that delaying tactic now.

[A CA Guy]

I believe he will be confirmed.

My understanding he was Confirmed long ago as a child.

[hershey]

The contrast between Judge Alito and the likes of Fatso Kennedy, Biden, etc., is stark.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

So the babies are done with their temper-tantrums... And this was a GOOD representation of how our tax dollars were wasted...

[NormsRevenge]

Here's the witnesses to be called for this week.. Specter may keep going tomorrow into Saturday or I thought I heard him mention that possibility.

There is a long list of pro and cons re: witnesses on the list here at this link ...

http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=1725

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks, I had the 19th running around in my noodle, but the senators ate into today's witness time , so . heck by the 20th is good. :-) (I'll take the 21st) lol

[mikeus_maximus]

Alito may be a dispassionate legal scholar, but the libby Dems stepped in it. Make a man's wife cry-- a self-made Italian man's wife-- an he won't forget. I can't wait for the first liberal cause celebe that Teddy, Biden and the rest of the whakos are hawking to come before Alito.

[Billthedrill]

He's in. Some of the less strident Dems are posting to their own boards that their Committee members are making them look like jerks. Which they are.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

LOL.

That would be entertaining, wouldn't it?

The rappin' professor.

I would have paid the Democrats to call that buffoon.

[Polyxene]

"Why do grown men let their hair curl up in the back like Senator Kohl??"

Maybe he's going for that youthful-mullet-Billy-Ray-Cyrus-look that was so popular (years ago!!)

[soloNYer]

Noticed that too. The bias is not so much what they say but what they leave out, trying to leave the impression that he's extreme.

Also, as a kind of wrap up, instead of the many times Alito did answer forthrightly, they decide the relevant statements are his few refusals based on the possibility he would see the cases...including abortion and immigration. Obviously written the way a lib would see it.

Nothing in the article, unless I missed it, alludes to his judicial philosophy that the Supreme Court should look at the facts of the cases before it, not proclaim sweeping opinions above and beyond the case, to keep an open mind, and to leave personal feelings behind.

A great example for me was the pollution case brought up by Feinstein. He ruled against (or dissented, can't remember which) the plaintiffs who tried to say they were damaged by a polluting plant. He decided that the plaintiffs had no evidence that they were damaged. That was the case before him...he didn't try to go after the company to right any "social" injustice. To Feinstein and libs, he should have decided the case before hand: a polluting company is guilty, no trial necessary. Should not matter what the facts are. That was a good illustration to me the difference between what a Dem wants and what a conservative wants on the bench.

In fact, the only quotes from Alito are refusals, agreeing with Leaky about living wills, and a compliment for O'Connor. Absolutely nothing in this article, if you only knew what was happening from this article, would tell you one thing about how Alito may rule on the Supreme Court. And therefore, if this writer had his way, you wouldn't have one reason to support him.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

If it was up to DiFi Erin Brockvich would have been the person President Bush sent up to the Senate.

[conservatrice]

Wow... long list! But I wish I could watch/listen to some of it. I've been trying to hear some of it on the radio on my way to and from work.

[soloNYer]

Agreed, but people know that about Feinstein. The insidiously hidden bias and agenda of the AP is what angers me. Especially right after the misrepresentation of why Alito's wife cried.

[USA Girl]

Could someone point me to a link or story giving more details on Alito's wife crying? I heard Rush briefly mention it, but I lack details of what brought it on and exactly what happened.

Have you all heard the singing liberals yet?

http://liberalherd.fidelis.org/

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://www.slate.com/id/2134147/

In almost none of these cases, though, does Alito seem like a little-guy champion. He seems like a judge who dutifully follows the law. When the law instructs him to find for the criminal defendant or the plaintiff, he does so.

The absolute gall!

It makes you wonder if any of these liberals have ever heard of the concept of justice being blind.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

http://www.confirmthem.com/?p=2087