Re: Senate Confirms Alito to Supreme Court

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> Senate Confirms Alito to Supreme Court
>
> Jan 31 11:23 AM US/Eastern
>
> By JESSE J. HOLLAND
> Associated Press Writer
>
> WASHINGTON
>
> Samuel Anthony Alito Jr. became the nation's 110th Supreme Court
> justice on Tuesday, confirmed with the most partisan victory in modern
> history after a fierce battle over the future direction of the high
> court.
>
> The Senate voted 58-42 to confirm Alito _ a former federal appellate
> judge, U.S. attorney, and conservative lawyer for the Reagan
> administration from New Jersey _ as the replacement for retiring
> Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who has been a moderate swing vote on the
> court.
>
> All but one of the Senate's majority Republicans voted for his
> confirmation, while all but four of the Democrats voted against Alito.
>
> That is the smallest number of senators in the president's opposing
> party to support a Supreme Court justice in modern history. Chief
> Justice John Roberts got 22 Democratic votes last year, and Justice
> Clarence Thomas _ who was confirmed in 1991 on a 52-48 vote _ got 11
> Democratic votes.
>
> Alito watched the final vote from the White House's Roosevelt Room
> with his family. He was to be sworn in by Roberts at the Supreme Court
> in a private ceremony later in the day, in plenty of time for him to
> appear with President Bush at the State of the Union speech Tuesday
> evening.
>
> Alito will be ceremonially sworn in a second time at a White House
> East Room appearance on Wednesday.
>
> With the confirmation vote, O'Connor's resignation became official.
> She resigned in July but agreed to remain until her successor was
> confirmed. She was in Arizona Tuesday teaching a class at the
> University of Arizona law school.
>
> Underscoring the rarity of a Supreme Court justice confirmation,
> senators answered the roll by standing one by one at their desks as
> their names were called, instead of voting and leaving the chamber.
> Alito and Roberts are the first two new members of the Supreme Court
> since 1994.
>
> Alito is a longtime federal appeals judge, having been confirmed by
> the Senate by unanimous consent on the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of
> Appeals in Philadelphia on April 27, 1990. Before that, he worked as
> New Jersey's U.S. attorney and as a lawyer in the Justice Department
> for the conservative Reagan administration.
>
> It was his Reagan-era work that caused the most controversy during his
> three-month candidacy for the high court.
>
> Alito replaces O'Connor, the court's first female justice and a key
> moderate swing vote on issues like assisted suicide, campaign finance
> law, the death penalty, affirmative action and abortion.
>
> Critics who mounted a fierce campaign against his nomination noted
> that while he worked in the solicitor general's office for President
> Reagan, he suggested that the Justice Department should try to chip
> away at abortion rights rather than mount an all-out assault. He also
> wrote in a 1985 job application for another Reagan administration post
> that he was proud of his work helping the government argue that "the
> Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion."
>
> Now, Alito says, he has great respect for Roe as a precedent but
> refused to commit to upholding it in the future. "I would approach the
> question with an open mind and I would listen to the arguments that
> were made," he told senators at his confirmation hearing earlier this
> month.
>
> Democrats weren't convinced, with liberals even unsuccessfully trying
> to rally support to filibuster Alito on Monday. "The 1985 document
> amounted to Judge Alito's pledge of allegiance to a conservative
> radical Republican ideology," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of
> Nevada said before the vote.
>
> They also repeatedly questioned Alito at his five-day confirmation
> hearing after he would not discuss his opinions about abortion or
> other contentious topics. At one point, his wife, Martha-Ann, started
> crying and left the hearing room as her husband's supporters defended
> him from the Democratic questioning.


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