I haven't been following his nomination but it seems he is passed the comittee and now he is headed for the full Senate.
On a party-line vote of 10-8, the committee sent the nomination of Alito to the 100-member Senate. The full chamber is to begin debate on Wednesday, with a confirmation vote as early as the end of this week.
He seems like he may be a pretty good bet to pass the full Senate as well unless the Dems fillibuster him. They seem to have objections about the Bush spying mess and not Alito judging by this statement:
Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, the committee's top Democrat, said Bush was "claiming power to illegally spy on Americans, to allow actions that violate our values and laws protecting human rights, and to detain U.S. citizens and others on his say so."
"So 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," Leahy said.
The Dems really need to tackle the spying mess in some other forum then this one. I have a feeling that if Alito gets in Roe vs. Wade will be numbered. All it takes is for one legislature to pass a law forbidding abortion and let the challenge get its way up to the Supreme Court and it becomes illegal in the US. And the more the Dems watch the spying mess the more the conservative wing of the Repubs will sneak the abortion ban past them.
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