DeclinetoState
01-11-2006, 04:31 PM
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WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito faced more aggressive questioning at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday from Democrats who accused him of evasive answers and challenged his commitment to keep an "open mind" on abortion.
While President George W. Bush's conservative nominee appeared headed for confirmation by the full Republican-led Senate later this month, several Democrats made it clear that after a relatively gentle start of proceedings, they planned to put up an election-year fight.
"Judge Alito has responded, but he has not answered," Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said during a break in the third day of the hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Schumer criticized Alito's repeated promise to keep an "open mind" on abortion, saying, "Has a judge ever said he would be closed-minded?"
Maybe not, Chuckles, but if he said he'd rule in favor of abortion every chance he got, you would approve of him. And what could be more closed-minded than that?
http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/drink.gifKennedy and Specter later got into a dispute over an attempt "to subpoena records of the disbanded group called Concerned Alumni of Princeton, or CAP." Specter eventually said the committee would get the records.
WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - U.S. Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito faced more aggressive questioning at his Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday from Democrats who accused him of evasive answers and challenged his commitment to keep an "open mind" on abortion.
While President George W. Bush's conservative nominee appeared headed for confirmation by the full Republican-led Senate later this month, several Democrats made it clear that after a relatively gentle start of proceedings, they planned to put up an election-year fight.
"Judge Alito has responded, but he has not answered," Sen. Charles Schumer, a New York Democrat, said during a break in the third day of the hearing by the Senate Judiciary Committee.
Schumer criticized Alito's repeated promise to keep an "open mind" on abortion, saying, "Has a judge ever said he would be closed-minded?"
Maybe not, Chuckles, but if he said he'd rule in favor of abortion every chance he got, you would approve of him. And what could be more closed-minded than that?
http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/images/icons/drink.gifKennedy and Specter later got into a dispute over an attempt "to subpoena records of the disbanded group called Concerned Alumni of Princeton, or CAP." Specter eventually said the committee would get the records.