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N.Y. Times: Alito Can't Be Stopped

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"After Alito’s testimony, Democrats still dislike him but can’t stop him.”

That’s the Friday morning headline in the New York Times as even the liberal Gray Lady concedes that Samuel Alito will be confirmed as the newest member of the Supreme Court.

While Democrats signaled on Thursday that they would not support Alito, "they saw little chance of blocking his confirmation, even with a filibuster,” the Times reports.

Senate aides said they expected the Judiciary Committee to split along party lines when it votes on Alito’s confirmation, according to the Times. The committee has 10 Republicans and eight Democrats.

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  Democrats believe it is unlikely they could muster enough support for a filibuster, which according to an earlier agreement between Democrats and the GOP, is allowable only under "extraordinary circumstances.”

Sen. Bill First (R-Tenn.), the majority leader, said nothing had emerged from the hearings that would "remotely justify” a filibuster, the Times disclosed.

The likelihood of a Democratic filibuster dimmed considerably when a spokeswoman for Sen. Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine) announced that she would oppose a filibuster.

Sen. Snowe was one of seven Republicans who had joined with Democrats to block GOP leaders from changing Senate rules to prevent filibusters against judicial nominations.

After Alito’s testimony, President Bush was confident enough regarding his confirmation to call him from Air Force One and congratulate him. Bush told Alito that during the questioning the nominee had "showed great class.”

As NewsMax reported in November, soon after Alito’s nomination the Times admitted that when he served as United States attorney for New Jersey from 1987 to 1990, "the hallmarks of his stewardship of the office” were "modesty, a straightforward style, common sense and, in baseball jargon, good pitch selection.”

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