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 WASHINGTON (AP) - A veteran Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee says he doubts his party will try to block a final vote on President Bush's nomination of conservative jurist Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court.
Alito, a federal appellate judge, should get a simple up-or-down majority vote on his appointment, Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."
"My instinct is we should commit," Biden said, playing down prospects that Democrats will try to begin a filibuster that would require 60 of the 100 senators to approve Alito's selection to replace retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. Bush's fellow Republicans hold 55 seats.
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