Alito was unanimously confirmed in 1990?

[Shrek]

By a Democratic Senate?

Is this for real?

:wtf:

[benburch]

1. Pretty routine for a judicial appointment that is not SC, actually. nt

[Shrek]

4. There were plenty of votes against Brown and Owen

Is this guy really any better?

I have my doubts, I really do.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. Isn't That Before He Made Most Of His Infamous Rulings?

eom

[tritsofme]

3. Scalia was approved to his SCOTUS seat 98-0

You don't usually fight for appellate court nominees bitterly, especially since Republican Presidents had been nominating judges for 10 years by this time.

The SCOTUS is a whole new ball game.

[blm]

5. Judges were less partisan. They were unlikely to press ideological agendas

back then.

It wasn't till Bush1 needed to court the right wing base for the 92 election that the fight became pure politics of demagoguery.