December 08, 2005

Specter: "Alito will have to answer more questions than Judge Roberts did"

Story from today's Washington Post. He says the reason for the additional scrutiny is due to the 1985 documents and his greater number of judicial opinions. Specter still thinks a filibuster is unlikely because "there is nothing they can point to" suggesting Alito is outside the judicial mainstream. (I'm not sure which "they" Specter was referring to -- Democrats or the Gang of 14.)