{"id":6490,"date":"2006-01-31T12:16:53","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T17:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6490"},"modified":"2006-01-31T12:16:53","modified_gmt":"2006-01-31T17:16:53","slug":"58-to-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/58-to-42\/","title":{"rendered":"58 to 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The floor vote on Samuel Alito&#8217;s Supreme Court nomination went largely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2006\/POLITICS\/01\/31\/alito\/index.html\">according to the script<\/a>, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&#038;session=2&#038;vote=00002\">58 votes for and 42 votes against<\/a>. Of that small cadre of moderate, pro-choice Republicans, only Rhode Island&#8217;s Lincoln Chafee voted against Alito. It was, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/11111624\/\">as MSNBC noted<\/a>, the most partisan vote on a high court nomination in modern political history, at least in terms of the number of lawmakers breaking party ranks.<\/p>\n<p>Among the Senate&#8217;s Dems, four voted to confirm &#8212; Byrd (W. Va.), Conrad (N.D.) Tim Johnson (S.D.), and Nelson (Neb.).<\/p>\n<p>In case there was any confusion, the Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.washingtonpost.com\/campaignforthecourt\/\">initially reported<\/a> that Sen. Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) voted to confirm. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/legislative\/LIS\/roll_call_lists\/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&#038;session=2&#038;vote=00002\">He did not<\/a>. (The Post has corrected the record.)<\/p>\n<p>Alito <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/31\/AR2006013100354.html\">will be  sworn in<\/a> by John Roberts at the Supreme Court in a private ceremony later today, will appear at tonight&#8217;s State of the Union address, and will be ceremonially sworn in a second time at a White House East Room appearance on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>As for my perspective on all of this, nothing&#8217;s changed since <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/6484.html\">my post<\/a> from this morning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The floor vote on Samuel Alito&#8217;s Supreme Court nomination went largely according to the script, with 58 votes for and 42 votes against. Of that small cadre of moderate, pro-choice Republicans, only Rhode Island&#8217;s Lincoln Chafee voted against Alito. It was, as MSNBC noted, the most partisan vote on a high court nomination in modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}