[Graybeard58]

No matter who is Chair of the committee, 40 Dems will still block any pro-life nominee

Yes, but if it reaches the full Senate the debate will be much more open to public scrutiny and therefore to public pressure.

[mrsmith]

Specter won't try to block any nominees, he didn't say he would- in fact he said he wouldn't. He can't anyway if the majority of the committee doesn't want to.

But 40 Dems will block all pro-life judges, just as Specter said.

This is the silliest cause I've seen on FR since the contrail people used to come by.

[Redbob]

We don't need avowedly "pro-life" justices on the Supreme Court: all we need are strict Constitutionalists.

There's nothing about a "right" to abortion in the Constitution, and they will certainly recognize that.