Samuel Alito Watch: Chance of Filibuster

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., right, meets with Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito on Capitol Hill, Friday, Nov. 18, 2005.

The ASSociated Press has Biden: Chance of Alito Filibuster Higher

The views that Samuel Alito expressed on reapportionment in a 20-year- old document could jeopardize his Supreme Court nomination and provoke a filibuster, a leading Democratic senator said Sunday.

“I think he’s got a lot of explaining to do, and depending on how he does, I think will determine whether or not he has a problem or not,” said Sen. Joseph Biden, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which plans confirmation hearings in early January.

In 1985, Alito was applying to become deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration. In the document, he boasted that while working as an assistant to the solicitor general, he helped “to advance legal positions in which I personally believe very strongly.”

Drawing the most attention from Alito’s critics today is his comment on abortion.

“I am particularly proud of my contributions in recent cases in which the government argued that racial and ethnic quotas should not be allowed and that the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion,” wrote Alito, now a federal appeals court judge.

Flap encourages SLOW JOE BIDEN to filibuster Alito.

The Republican majority will change the rules and Alito will be confirmed.

End of whine after whine story from Biden and crew.

Just a reminder of the Senate Judiciary vote on Chief Justice John Roberts…..

The five Democrats who voted against confirmation are:

Joe Biden of Delaware

Dianne Feinstein of California

Dick Durbin of Illinois

Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts

Charles Shumer of New York

Biden’s arguments against Judge Alito are an EXCUSE not rationale.