WSJ.com - Ministers Say They Blessed Seats Ahead of Alito Hearing

WSJ.com - Ministers Say They Blessed Seats Ahead of Alito Hearing: "WASHINGTON -- Insisting that God 'certainly needs to be involved' in the Supreme Court confirmation process, three Christian ministers today blessed the doors of the hearing room where Senate Judiciary Committee members will begin considering the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito on Monday."

You know, the real problems Alito will have, and this may not be enough to stop him, are his previous statements on Executive power. He's advocated many times for governmental invasion of privacy without warrants. with the NSA scandal going full steam, people may not want to see the Fourth Amendment as a suggestion rather than a rule of government. Alito has a long history of legal writing that he'll have to explain. 1st, he advocated some extreme measures as a Reagan staffer. Now he's tried hard to distance himself from those writings. More recently he's rarely (if ever) sided with the citizen over the state in matters dealing with constitutional protections.

Finally, and this is small but curious, Alito was an active member (And i believe a CHARTER member, but i could be wrong) of a group of Princeton Alumni. They worked to keep women out of the school because the'd 'ruin' it...and we're not talking about the 1950s here.