Ed Whelan Predicts Alito Confirmation

Supreme Court news is heating up again with Judge Samuel Alito's confirmation hearings pending. Ed Whelan of NRO's Bench Memos predicts there will not be a filibuster.

Stay tuned to Confirm Them and Bench Memos for the latest as the hearings get underway next week.

In other legal news, the judicial blog Underneath Their Robes, which abruptly shut down in November, returned to the blogosphere on New Year's Eve.