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Article: Alito heads toward confirmation to Supreme Court despite challenges by Democrats
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- January 13, 2006
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LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
01-13-2006
Dateline: WASHINGTON
Samuel Alito's nomination to the Supreme Court is gliding toward confirmation despite a week of hearings in which Democrats tried and failed to hobble his prospects with withering questions on abortion, presidential power and ethics.
Democrats argue that the former Reagan administration lawyer is likely to tip the court's balance to the right in replacing centrist Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
But with little success so far peeling votes from Alito's confirmation as the nation's 110th Supreme Court justice, Democrats showed little appetite for mounting a filibuster on the Senate floor. The confirmation ...