USA: Juridics: Alito confirmation vote looms, has been backed up to date of State of the Union address

Jay Sekulow, of the American Center for Law and Justice has sent out this email bulletin on the the prospects and timetable for the vote on Judge Sam Alito's confirmation to the US Supreme Court.

The clock is ticking on the upcoming Senate vote for Judge Samuel Alito! Tune in for the latest information on this most-important battle for the Supreme Court - and updates on other important cases and issues.

Right now, it appears the first call for a cloture (an end to the debate) will take place Monday evening (1/30). If granted, Judge Alito could be voted on as early as Monday evening or Tuesday morning. However, what will actually happen is still very much unknown! Senator Kerry has called for a filibuster (with little support at this time).

The timing is all MachiaDemocrat, since they have purposefully backed up the vote to the day before or the day after the State of the Union address by President George Bush. This positioning and scheduling by the Democrats is very likely designed to bash Alito and at the same time generate as much fear as possible, and resulting public pressure, by blatantly using the Abortion issue as a litmus test, quite falsely, to smear Alito and hence undermine Bush and to gain some traction toward the November election of a new House of Representatives, some Senate seats also being on the ballots in some states, and many Governors.

Nevertheless, I'm still expecting the Senate to confirm Sam Alito to a seat on the US Supreme Court. - Politcarp