Samuel Alito Watch: 2nd Day of Confirmation Hearings – Is he UNSTOPPABLE?

Supporters greet Supreme Court justice nominee Samuel Alito as he arrives for the second day of his confirmation hearings in Washington, January 10, 2006.

AP: Alito Pleases GOP Senators, Not Democrats

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito picked his way carefully Tuesday through the issues of abortion and warrantless wiretapping, satisfying Senate Republicans at his confirmation hearings but provoking Democratic expressions of displeasure.

The Bill of Rights applies “in times of war and in times of national crisis,” the 55-year-old appeals court judge said, although he declined to specify whether President Bush acted properly in ordering wiretaps without warrants in selected cases as part of the war on terror.

Asked repeatedly about abortion, he assured the Senate Judiciary Committee he would first take previous rulings into account. At the same time, he stressed that precedent, including the landmark 1973 decision establishing a woman’s right to end her pregnancy, is not binding on the high court.

“I would approach the question with an open mind and I would listen to the arguments that were made,” said Alito, who wrote two decades ago that he did not believe the Constitution includes the right to an abortion.

No major gaffs and the Senate Democrats look like a group of mental midgets compared to Judge Alito.

Samuel Alito is NO Harriet Miers.

Michelle Malkin has a good round-up of pieces, ALITO WATCH: DAY 2

So, is Judge Samuel Alito unstoppable for confirmation to the United State Supreme Court?

You betcha……the Democrats will NOT DARE to filibuster and if the do……..NUCLEAR OPTION.

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