I was going to use this space to talk about the developments on the first day of the Confirmation Hearings for Justice Samuel Alito. However, the developments of the first day amount to a lot of scripted BS and glorified introductions. As for my opinion on today, Alito is a pretty boring guy and most of what is said is about code words. These hearings are going to come down to Alito’s beliefs on executive power and abortion. The Executive Powers issues is extremely important and seems to fall into the lap of democrats with recent developments being what they are. If the democrats can cause Alito, who isn’t quite the slick Roberts to slip up, then there is a chance he wont be confirmed but these executive power issue must be brought out and it must be clear that he is out of the mainstream on many issues standing against regular people, an issue democrats tried to push multiple times today. The major problem I see for us democrats is that not many people seem to care or have a strong opinion at this time. If people aren’t paying too much attention and there is no major sound bit leading for us I think it is tough. However, based on what I know of Alito at this time he seems to stand most for corporations and not siding with people and being against Roe v. Wade. Things will be interesting as the real game starts tomorrow and goes into the week.

Below I have built up somewhat of a list of sources that may be useful in evaluating these hearings:

New York Times: Alito Confirmation Navigator

Washington Post : Special Report on the Alito Hearings

Slate's Coverage

The Center For American Progress