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Barbara Boxer: Bush Spy Hearings Before Alito

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Sen. Barbara Boxer has asked Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter to delay confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Sam Alito until after hearings are held into President Bush's terrorist surveillance program, saying the president may have committed an impeachable offense.

"I really believe it is important to have those hearings as soon as possible," Boxer told Specter - in a letter sent on Wednesday. "And I ask you to consider holding them before the hearings on Judge Alito."

Boxer said that "because Justice O’Connor has graciously agreed to stay on the Court until her successor is confirmed, the importance of this matter should take precedence, especially since the President has vowed to continue this warrantless surveillance."

"Many experts," said the Marin County Democrat, "are saying that this action by the President is an abuse of executive authority. For example, John Dean, who was White House counsel to President Nixon during Watergate, believes that this President has admitted to an 'impeachable offense.'"

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  She called Judiciary Committee hearings into the Bush spy program "essential."

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