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Reacting to Samuel Alito's confirmation to the U.S. Supreme Court, pro-abortion groups are issuing statements of outrage, one organization calling the confirmation "a blow to the ideals of freedom and privacy that Americans value." Yesterday, the Senate confirmed President Bush's choice to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor by a 58-42 count. Only four Democrats backed Alito, joining 54 of the chamber's 55 Republicans. The National Organization for Women accused senators who confirmed Alito of giving in to the "despicable agenda of the right wing," and condemned their "unrelenting determination to undermine our rights and liberties." Karen Pearl, interim president...

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito picked up his second Democratic supporter on Thursday, with Tim Johnson of South Dakota announcing he will vote for the conservative judge to become the nation's 110th justice. Johnson joins fellow Democrat Ben Nelson of Nebraska as the only members of their party to announce Senate support for the conservative judge.

People for American Way Leads ‘Stop Alito’ A familiar liberal group has launched another campaign to "save the courts,” this time, from Supreme Court Nominee Sam Alito. People for the American Way began a targeted, national TV campaign Sunday during NBC’s "Meet The Press” with a commercial "to help tell all Americans that Samuel Alito is part of the radical right's dream team.” Sounds good so far. According to a fundraising e-mail received by NewsMax, the group views the Alito nomination as a critical step in regaining a mainstream – read: liberal – agenda for America. "We cannot let the...

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito told a key Democrat that he wrestled mightily with a 1991 opinion favoring an abortion restriction that has become a centerpiece in the debate over his confirmation. Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, a member of the Judiciary Committee, told the New York Times that in a private meeting he had asked Judge Alito about his dissent in the appeals court case Planned Parenthood v. Casey. The case was a challenge to a Pennsylvania law requiring married women to notify their husbands before seeking an abortion. The majority opinion struck down the restriction. Alito, in...

The liberal George Soros-funded Web site MoveOn.org - proud sponsors of the failed 2004 John Kerry presidential campaign - has created a petition to be sent to the U.S. Senate opposing the confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito as associate justice of the Supreme Court. The expressed goal of the drive is to collect at least 250,000 signatures on the petition, which expresses the sentiment: "The nomination of Samuel Alito poses a grave threat to the protections Americans count on, including basic workers’ rights, women’s rights, and civil rights. We call on the Senate to stand up for all of us...