Samuel Alito is Confirmed!

This afternoon, Justice Samuel Alito was confirmed as the 110th member of the United States Supreme Court. He was voted in by the Senate with a 58-42 victory. While this number did tow the party lines, a handful of Democrats did vote for Alito. This nomination still come in at one of the closest partisan votes for a Supreme Court nominee since Judge Clarence Thomas.

Samuel Alito is the second conservative judge that President Bush has nominated for the Supreme Court. He has replaced Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who has now gone into retirement.