Fighting For Alito: His Fellow Judges
It must’ve almost killed Reuters to have to report that Judge Alito’s fellow judges support him in his nomination battle. Here’s a glimpse of what the article says:
Republicans who control the Senate Judiciary Committee said on Friday a half dozen of Alito’s fellow and former colleagues, led by Anthony Scirica, chief judge of the Philadelphia-based 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, had accepted invitations. “These people really know him,” said Chairman Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican. Specter said he initially asked one of the judges, Edward Becker, if he would be willing to appear and that Becker and others soon agreed. Judges have rarely testified at confirmation hearings on judicial nominees but Specter’s office said they have done so, most recently in 2004 for a district court candidate.
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Specter said Alito’s colleagues “will testify about his approach to judging, as to whether he has an agenda, as to whether he is ideological, whether he pushes any specific point of view.”
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In addition to Scirica and Becker, other members of the appeals court set to testify include: Maryanne Trump Barry, Ruggero Aldisert and Leonard Garth, along with two retired members of the court, John Gibbons and Timothy Lewis. Overall, there are 13 sitting judges on the 3rd Circuit, plus seven others on senior status, meaning they have a reduced workload.
Call me crazy but I’d bet that these witnesses come across as far more credible than Stephen Dujack, the Democrats’ smear witness. After they’re done testifying, Mr. Dujack’s smears will seem very partisan and as the smears that they are.
I loved reading this article because it shows that the Judiciary Committee Republicans aren’t letting the Judiciary Committee Democrats smear Judge Alito. Instead, they’re fighting fire with a blowtorch. They’re essentially saying that if the Democrats want to smear people, they’ll make certain that the entire story gets told and the Democrats’ smear witness will be utterly discredited.
Look for Sens. Sessions, Hatch, Coburn and Cornyn to especially to light into Mr. Dujack, with Sens. Hatch and Cornyn being the most effective in discrediting Dujack.
UPDATE:
Michelle Malkin has updates
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