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In Poll, 54% Back Alito's Confirmation
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| Contributor | J.R. |
| Last Edited | J.R. Dec 22, 2005 03:09pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Washington Post |
| News Date | Thursday, December 22, 2005 09:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | A majority of Americans now support the confirmation of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court to fill the seat of retiring Associate Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.
The survey found that 54 percent say the Senate should confirm Alito, while 28 percent say he should not be approved. That marks a modest increase in public support for Alito since November, when 49 percent said he should be confirmed and 29 percent said he should not. In both surveys, about one in five Americans said they did not know enough about the nominee to have an opinion.
Alito, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, is now about as popular as John G. Roberts Jr. was on the eve of his Senate confirmation hearings in September, the survey found. Roberts easily won Senate approval to be chief justice, breezing through his hearings and winning the votes of all 55 Republican senators and of half of their Democratic colleagues. It is uncertain whether Alito will go as effortlessly through his Senate confirmation hearings, which are scheduled to start on Jan. 9. The Senate hopes to hold a final vote on Alito by Jan. 20. |
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