Reuters: "The full Republican-led Senate is expected to confirm" Scalito

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Alito seen surviving tough confirmation hearing

By Thomas Ferraro 2 hours, 43 minutes ago

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060108/pl_nm/court_alito_dc

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito begins his Senate confirmation hearing on Monday, facing tough questions on matters from civil liberties and presidential war powers to his own opposition to abortion. With the direction of the nation's highest court at stake, lawmakers in both parties on the Senate Judiciary Committee are expected to challenge President George W. Bush's conservative nominee on his legal record and beliefs.

Yet barring an unforeseen bombshell or bumbling performance, the full Republican-led Senate later this month is expected to confirm Alito, a federal appeals judge since 1990 who previously served as a U.S. prosecutor and Reagan administration lawyer.

"There is a heavy sense of drama as these hearings begin," Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, said in a statement released on Sunday and prepared for delivery at the opening of the proceeding.

"This hearing will give Judge Alito a full opportunity to address the issues of concern," Specter said.

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1. So, There Ya Go... the Nazis Want Their Way Regardless

So fillibuster him. And take down the pukes as well...

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2. You mean the illegally-elected Repug majority (due to EF)???

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3. That one.

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4. Just wrote Senator Einstein another e-mail

asking her to vote against him. Let's keep e-mailing our senators.