Samuel Alito was confirmed as the Supreme Court’s 110th Justice:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sharply divided U.S. Senate on Tuesday confirmed Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, backing a second conservative nominated by President George W. Bush in his effort to move the nation’s highest court to the right.
The largely party-line vote was 58-42 to replace the more moderate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor with Alito, a federal appeals judge since 1990, and came four months after the Senate approved Bush’s first Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts, as U.S. chief justice.
Alito is expected to align himself with the court’s solidly conservative bloc and could affect the outcome of votes on key social issues such as abortion and civil rights.
Alito arranged to watch the Senate vote at the White House and was to be sworn in at the Supreme Court later in the day. He was expected to attend Bush’s State of the Union address to Congress on Tuesday night with fellow justices.
Reuters keeps flogging the Democrat Party line with it’s reference to abortion and civil rights, as if the mere act of confirmation has ended both. Only the very last line in the entire article mentions the fact that President Bush ran on, and won on, a platform of appointing conservative judges to the federal courts. This appointment was perfectly in-line with what he promised. All Reuters can do, however, is give us quotations from the vanquished:
Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said, “I must say that I wish the president was in a position to do more than claim a partisan victory tonight.”
“The union would be better and stronger and more unified if we were confirming a different nominee, a nominee who could have united us more than divided us,” Schumer said.
Translation: the President didn’t cower in fear and do what we told him to, so now the country is going to go to hell.
I just wish that Bush would show this kind of backbone when it comes to closing the border.
