Trackbacked at Stop The ACLU:
The Associated Press tells us that the Judiciary Committee favorably recommended Samuel Alito’s Supreme Court nomination to the full Senate on a party-line vote Tuesday, moving the jurist one step closer to joining the high court.
All 10 Republicans voted for Alito, while all eight Democrats voted against him. The partisan vote was almost preordained, with 15 of the 18 senators announcing their votes even before the committee’s session began.
The full Senate expects to take a final vote on Alito’s nomination before the end of the week. That vote is also expected to follow along party lines, with only one Democrat – Ben Nelson of Nebraska – coming out so far in support of Alito. Republicans hold the balance of power in the Senate 55-44, with one independent.
Two important things to remember:
- MY Vast Right Wing Conspiracy tells us that Patrick Leahy, the perfect left-liberal senator, worries that “No President should be allowed to pack the courts, and especially the Supreme Court, with nominees selected to enshrine presidential claims of government power. I will not lend my support to an effort by this President to move the Supreme Court and the law radically to the right and to remove the final check within our democracy.” OK, I agree that court packing is a bad thing. But my question is where was Leahy when Clinton packed the high court with Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen Breyer? Didn’t that action by Clinton “move the Supreme Court and the law radically to the left”? But, as always, the two words “Democrat” and “Hypocrite” are so interchangable.
- Then courtesy of Wizbang we are reminded that in 1990 George H. Bush nominated Sam Alito for the 3rd U.S. Judicial District and he was appointed by a unanimous voice vote in the Senate. For those of you that were “educated” in government schools the word “unanimous” means “everybody” – including the Democrats. So if Alito was such a good choice in 1990 for the 3rd District why is he such a bad choice for SCOTUS? But, as always, the two words “Democrat” and “Hypocrite” are so interchangable.
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