This morning, Senator Ted Kennedy asserted on the Senate floor that there hasn't been adequate debate on the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito. This could easily be translated into "Over the past 3 months we have not been able to dig up any dirt on Alito to derail his nomination."...
Proving that she is, at bottom, a mere tool of the far left, Hillary Clinton has come out in favor of filibustering judge Alito: WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday announced she'll join potential 2008 presidential rival John Kerry in voting to filibuster against Supreme Court nominee Samuel...
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Why Filibuster Alito?
By Mark Noonan at
03:57 AM
While there are probably a lot of different ways of expressing why the left wants a filibuster of Alito, I think that the reason for it is only one thing, and John Nichols, blogging over at The Nation, gives us the most concise explanation I've found so far on the...
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January 27, 2006
Feinstein Reneges, Will Vote 'No' On Cloture
By Matt Margolis at
05:01 PM
Ironic isn't it? Feinstein flip-flops for Kerry's filibuster... UPDATE: More at GOP Bloggers....
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Bring On The Kerry Filibuster
By Matt Margolis at
12:03 PM
I want John Kerry to attempt a filibuster. I think it will help us significantly in the short and long terms. There is no legitimate reason to attempt to block the Alito nomination, and any attempt by the Democrats to do so would prove just how on the fringe they...
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January 26, 2006
Sore Loser Syndrome
By Matt Margolis at
04:59 PM
Kerry calls for filibuster of Alito. Does Alito not pass the "global test?" Meanwhile, Kerry is not ruling out another presidential run. In all seriousness, a filibuster of Alito led by John Kerry would be an incredible show. Could you imagine the guy who couldn't even excite a crowd of...
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Mainstream Alito
By Matt Margolis at
02:17 PM
We've already seen a number of national polls confirming that a majority of voters support Alito's confirmation... In addition to that, Alito's support is strong according a number of state polls. UPDATE: More red state Democrats will vote to confirm Alito... COINCIDENCE?: Senator Robert Byrd announced his support for Alito...
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New York Times Demands Filibuster Of Alito
By Matt Margolis at
09:16 AM
...but there's no liberal bias... Judge Samuel Alito Jr., whose entire history suggests that he holds extreme views about the expansive powers of the presidency and the limited role of Congress, will almost certainly be a Supreme Court justice soon. His elevation will come courtesy of a president whose grandiose...
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January 25, 2006
Well Said, Senator Cornyn
By Matt Margolis at
04:25 PM
Senator John Cornyn gave a great speech on the floor of the Senate today, explaining why he'll vote for Judge Alito's confirmation... Here's a small portion: It is clear to me, though, during the course of the confirmation process, that the reason I support Judge Alito his philosophy of...
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January 24, 2006
Judiciary Committee Creating New Republican Voters
By Kevin Patrick at
06:30 PM
Here's a quick anecdotal story for you. Back in the Fall of 2000, I was my typical GOP firebrand -- entertaining political discussions via an email discussion group with friends on the Right and Left in the lead up to the Presidential election. Have to keep fighting the good fight...
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Playing The Miers Card
By Matt Margolis at
04:22 PM
I was amused today during the Judiciary Committee vote on Alito, as well as during the hearings a few weeks ago, when Democrats brought up Harriet Miers and said she should have been given a chance for a vote and blah, blah, blah... Now they call her an independent, or...
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The Democratic Insult
By Mark Noonan at
01:43 PM
I was watching the committee vote on TV this morning, listening to Democrats give their absurd reasons for opposing Alito and it suddenly occured to me that the Democratic Party was offering a universal insult to all Catholics of a conservative bent. Alito is perfectly qualified to be a Justice...
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Judiciary Committee Vote
By Matt Margolis at
10:31 AM
Well, I've been watching, it's currently a 10-6 partyline line. Senator Biden just finished telling us that we still live in a racist society. Kyl, "Why is this committee divided over Judge Alito?" He says it cannot be over his qualifications. 10:39 a.m. ET: Kohl just voted no. Says abortion...
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January 22, 2006
Once A Sore Loser...
By Matt Margolis at
06:09 PM
...always a sore loser. Sen. John Kerry said Sunday he will vote against Supreme Court nominee Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. because he fears Alito would take the country "backwards." Kerry, the failed Democratic nominee for president in 2004, also voted against now-Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts. But Alito,...
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January 21, 2006
Filibuster of Alito?
By Mark Noonan at
05:05 PM
That is the theory being floated by Robert Novak: WASHINGTON -- Pressure from liberal activists to oppose confirmation of Judge Samuel Alito for the Supreme Court has been so intense that Democratic senators may be trapped into a filibuster that they do not want to wage. Despite the consensus that...
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January 20, 2006
Alito Answers Written Questions From Senators
By Matt Margolis at
03:46 PM
Today, Judge Alito provided answers today to written questions submitted by Senators Durbin, Kennedy, Leahy, Levin, Schumer, and Feingold. It's worth noting that three of the Senators who submitted questions (Kennedy, Leahy, and Durbin) had already announced their intent to vote again Alito's confirmer before they even received his answers......
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Sununu and Gregg for Alito... Leahy and Salazar Against..
By Matt Margolis at
12:32 AM
New Hampshire Republican Senators John Sununu and and Judd Gregg will support Alito's confirmation... Meanwhile, Senators Pat Leahy and Ken Salazar will oppose Alito's confirmation... and for phony reasons too....
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January 19, 2006
Headlines and Spin
By Matt Margolis at
11:28 AM
Today, a liberal group, LCCR, posted an AP story titled, "Conservative Democrat Says He Won't Vote for Alito" on their website. The story says that Senator Max Baucus plans to vote against Alito's nomination. LCCR, by posting up this story, is hoping to give the impression that conservative Democrats dont...
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January 18, 2006
Decision Time For Democrats On Alito
By Matt Margolis at
10:57 AM
Today, GOP.com launched a new feature to track where Democrats stand on Judge Alitos confirmation. Senate Democrats were asked to hold off on stating a position until todays Senate Democrat Caucus, so, we should soon find out where they stand. Click here to get the most recent updates on the...
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Sen. Ben Nelson Will Vote To Confirm Alito
By Matt Margolis at
01:03 AM
Senator Ben Nelson, Democrat from Nebraska, says he will vote to confirm Judge Alito.Nelson, one of the most conservative Democrats in Congress, said in a statement that he had made up his mind to support Alito "because of his impeccable judicial credentials, the American Bar Association's strong recommendation and his...
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January 17, 2006
Alito Nomination Delayed
By Matt Margolis at
10:34 AM
This is an absolute travesty. The Democrats already know how they're going to vote. The only thing that's going happen in their extra week is they're going to try to dig up more dirt on Alito. Jonathan over at GOP Bloggers notes that Leahy has "stabbed Arlen Specter in the...
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The Left Keeps Up the Anti-Alito Fight
By Mark Noonan at
03:27 AM
Hope does spring eternal, I guess, for Scott Shields over at MyDD:: So many people have been saying that, since Alito's confirmation hearings are over and he survived it without throwing a tantrum or a water glass, it's a done deal. It's not. In order to win his seat on...
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January 16, 2006
A Tale of Two Cities
By Mark Noonan at
06:11 PM
Michael Barone takes a look at the cities of Princeton and Hamilton Township in New Jersey. The latter place is where judge Alito was born and raised, the former where he obtained his higher education: recently traveled through both Hamilton Township and Princeton. The contrast between the million-dollar-plus homes and...
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Alito Heads Towards Easy Confirmation
By Mark Noonan at
09:31 AM
This should pretty well drive the last nail in the anti-Alito political coffin: A key Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee said yesterday that she will not support filibustering the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., although she will oppose his confirmation. "I do not see a...
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Liberal Delusions On Alito
By Matt Margolis at
12:06 AM
Does anyone else find it funny when anti-Alito groups claim that they are the mainstream and speak for the majority of Americans, when polls continually show that they are completely wrong, and clear majority of Americans believe he should be confirmed? PREVIOUS: A Majority of Americans Support Alito...
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January 15, 2006
The Left's Sacred Precedent
By Mark Noonan at
12:55 AM
We've heard a lot over the past few weeks about judicial precedent and how very important it is. Indeed, to our liberal and leftwing friends, judicial precedent seems to be more important than what is actually in the United States Constitution. To hear them talk about it, once a Supreme...
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January 14, 2006
Tip of the Hat to Senator Specter
By Mark Noonan at
03:26 AM
I was one of the very many cossevatives who were angered back in November of 2004 when Senator Specter, in line to become chairman of the Judiciary Committee, seemed to stake out a position in opposition to conservative judicial nominees. Specter backed away from that and essentially said that wasn't...
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January 13, 2006
Dems Still Want To Delay Alito
By Matt Margolis at
07:27 PM
According to the Associated Press, the Democrats are going to make one last attempt to delay the confirmation of Judge Alito. Despite the fact that Alito got the highest rating from the ABA, and handled himself tremendously well during the hearings, the Democrats seem determined to pretend they are not...
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Admiring David Corn
By Mark Noonan at
09:49 AM
What? A rock-ribbed conservative like me admiring a leftwing extremist like Corn? Yep. I always admire people who nail their colors to the mast and insist on fighting for their beliefs, regardless of how wrongheaded those beliefs are. In the Alito hearings, we've had days of Democrats dancing around what...
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Democrats Unlikely To Block Alito
By Matt Margolis at
12:47 AM
With none of their attacks sticking, the Democrats find themselves defeated in their battle to stop the nomination of Judge Alito.Samuel A. Alito Jr., an appellate judge who could shift the Supreme Court significantly to the right, appeared headed for the high court yesterday after completing three days of interrogation...
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January 12, 2006
The De-Fanged Liberal Lion
By Mark Noonan at
06:41 PM
Tom Bevan over at Real Clear Politics describes the ultimate degeneration of Senator Ted Kennedy: Nobody has felt, or suffered, the weight of changes in the electoral landscape and the resulting shift in the power structure in Washington, D.C. over the last twenty-five years more than Kennedy. He came to...
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How Many Dems Could Be Confirmed?
By Matt Margolis at
01:18 PM
Real Clear Politics answers that question......
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Democrats Don't Need More Time For Questioning
By Matt Margolis at
12:18 PM
I just received a breakdown of the number of questions by topic, as of the end of the yesterday, that have been asked of Judge Alito. While Democrats are still trying to find a way to delay a Judiciary Committee vote, it is clear that they they are simply asking...
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Alito Not Mentioned In CAP Records
By Matt Margolis at
10:14 AM
Once again, the Democrats are proven to be barking up the wrong tree... An examination of hundreds of documents from the founder of a controversial college alumni group found no mention of Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee said Thursday. The federal judge's membership...
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January 11, 2006
Alito Already More Responsive than Ginsburg
By Matt Margolis at
05:50 PM
As of 3:00pm today, Judge Alito has already answered more questions than Justice Ginsburg did in her entire hearing. Judge Alito: 441 Questions Asked 431 Answered Answered 98 % Justice Ginsburg: 384 Questions Asked 307 Answered Answered 80% So much for the Democrats' claims that Alito hasn't been forthcoming. UPDATE,...
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January 09, 2006
RNC Blogger Forum: Alito Hearings Begin
By Matt Margolis at
12:34 PM
The Alito hearings have begun... The RNC Forum Bloggers are all watching and blogging at the same time. UPDATE, 12:48 PM: Ted Kennedy just finished his rant... I'd like to apologize for the stupidity of my Senator. UPDATE, 12:52 PM: I talk about dj vu... The Democrats sound like they...
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January 07, 2006
Do Not Get Complacent!
By Mark Noonan at
04:59 PM
While Matt and I will do our best to mind-meld the Senatorial GOP into having some backbone while we attend the Alito confirmation hearings, there is only so much that Vulcan mind tricks can accomplish. NRO has an editorial advising against complacency in the Alito confirmation battle: Republicans ought to...
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Alito's Fellow Judges Support Him
By Matt Margolis at
11:07 AM
While the Democrats oppose Alito simply for being nominated by President Bush, Alito's federal appeals court colleagues will testify in support of his nomination at his hearings next week.Republicans who control the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Friday a half dozen of Alito's fellow and former colleagues, led by Anthony...
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January 06, 2006
The Inexcusable Left
By Mark Noonan at
08:31 PM
Matt has noted and Jonathan over at GOP Bloggers has covered the story that Stephen R. Dujack will be called as an anti-Alito witness during the hearings next week. Who is Stephen Dujack? Well, here's a sample of his thinking, as taken from a commentary published in the Los Angeles...
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Democrats Want To Destroy Alito
By Matt Margolis at
05:54 PM
The Drudge Report "has learned from exclusive sources that Senate Democrats have put into place a plan that includes one last push to take down the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito as he heads into his confirmation hearing next week...." UPDATE: More from Drudge......
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