This alone is not a reason to deny his nomination, but he has been far to the right on a number of things, even thought the Reps are trying to paint him as a mainstream conservative… Which is as confusing as a Compassionate Conservative, and giving how well that’s working out the US, that might be enough right there to deny his nomination.

Did he stand to benefit financially by not recusing himself? No.

As to Alito’s record and ability to serve as a Supreme Court Justice? This instance would not appear to be a fundamental enough issue upon which to deny his nomination.

And his defense for not recusing himself when he said he would recuse himself is because he didn’t have to recuse himself? Sounds as fishy as Frist saying that he didn’t have to sell his stock because there’s no conflict of interest then selling years later just before it tanked to prevent implication of a conflict of interest. It just doesn’t hold water. How did he rule in those cases? Oh yeah, for his interests. good thing he doesn’t see a conflict of interest. Yet, Delay wants his judge tossed because he’s a democrat! You people are a joke.

Sounds like a non-issue, although some of the membership is chomping at the bit for something, anything, it would appear to rule against Alito.

A non-issue? Listen, Alito should have done what he promised. Personal gain isn’t what’s at issue here. Integrity and professional ethics are. Hopefully this is all we’ll see.