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The Alito confirmation vote
Matt Margolis is liveblogging the Alito confirmation vote. Interesting stuff going on this morning in the Senate.
Of course there are still some Democratic Senators voicing their, um, ‘displeasure’, at the Alito nomination, but in the end, he’s still expected to be confirmed.
Update I: I’m having trouble accessing that B4B link directly – if you’re having that same problem, try the link to the main page and you should be able to see the updates.
Update II: Just read via the AP that Alito has been confirmed 58-42. B4B (which I can access again) has the vote breakdown.
If another Justice retires before Bush’s 2nd term is over, as is being speculated, before it’s all said and done this court could be known as “the Bush court” … I’m sure that will drive a certain segment of our population absolutely batty 
Update III: Samuel Alito is sworn in as the 110th USSC Justice.
Related Toldjah So posts:
- Alito filibuster fails as Ted Kennedy has a meltdown
- Hillary to join Kerry and Kennedy in support of Alito filibuster
- Kerry pushes Alito filibuster
- 10-8 party line vote sets up Senate vote on Alito
- Democrats scrap deal on Alito vote
- Sen. Joe Biden whines because nominees won’t take issue positions
- The Alito confirmation hearings: Day four
- A review of the Senators on Confirmation Row
- Thank you, Sen. Graham
- The Alito confirmation hearings: Day three
- The Alito confirmation hearings: Day two
- Alito confirmation hearings – day one
- Alito confirmation hearing promises to be a slugfest
- Leave Judge Alito’s 90 year old mother alone!
- Alito is “extremist” but Ginsburg is a “moderate”
- Planned Parenthood pulls a NARAL with ad about Alito
- Here we go: Alito is ‘anti-civil rights’
- Does Alito have the votes to get confirmed?
- Bush will pick Alito for Supreme Court
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As of 1100 hrs, the vote was 58 to 38 for Alito.
What’ll drive the left batty is the fact that it was 58-42. That means that they COULD’VE had a filibuster if the people who voted no stepped up to the plate and filibustered.
Those Dems who changed their position did so because they knew they’d really been in the fire for blocking Alito come reelection time I’m sure.
Justice Clarence Thomas who was confirmed in 1991 on a 52-48 vote got 11 Democratic votes.
Alito got 4 Democrat votes.
Roberts got 22 Democrat Senators.
Liberal Justice vote totals:
John Paul Stevens, 1975: 98-0
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1993: 96-3
Stephen Breyer, 1994: 87-9
What does this mean? That the Democrat Senators are more extreme and/or partisan…..
I still don’t believe it is good for the republic to pack the Supreme Court with 5 Opus Dei, Catholic, men. Peace
steve, there are no quotas on Supreme Court Membership. I doubt you objected when Democrats tried packing the Courts with Liberals who rule from the bench like despotic Kings.
Bang, I moved this post to the SOTU thread – here’s the repost of your comment. –ST
I’ve always wondered why Ginsburg doesn’t recuse herself from cases the ACLU has it’s fingers in?
I know why Kennedy and kerry don’t bloviate in condemnation of Ginsburg.