Samuel Alito Watch: Filibuster Attempt Fizzles – Alito Headed Toward Confirmation

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito, center, smiles as he arrives to meet Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., in her Capitol Hill office Monday, Jan. 30, 2006. Time is running out for liberals trying to block Alito. Senators planned to vote Monday on whether to shut down a filibuster attempt aimed at keeping the conservative judge off the nation’s highest court. Behind Alito is White House aide Jamie Brown.

ASSociated Press: Senate Moves Alito Close to Confirmation

The Senate on Monday all but guaranteed Samuel Alito’s confirmation as the nation’s 110th Supreme Court justice, shutting down a last-minute attempt by liberals to block the conservative judge’s nomination with a filibuster.

Republican and Democratic senators, on a 72-25 vote, agreed to end their debate, setting up a Tuesday morning vote on Alito’s confirmation to replace retiring moderate Justice
Sandra Day O’Connor.

“I am pleased that a strong, bipartisan majority in the Senate decisively rejected attempts to obstruct and filibuster an up-or-down vote on Judge Sam Alito’s nomination,” President Bush said.

The LEFT wimps out on the Alito filibuster and the Gang of 14 takes the credit…..

“We saw no reason for the members of this group to support a filibuster,” said senior Democratic Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia, a member of the “Gang of 14” â€” a group of Republicans and Democrats who have pledged not to filibuster unless there are “extraordinary circumstances.”

The Fat Lady has Sung……..Confirmation tomorrow morning…….

Congratulations to Justice Samuel Alito.