From the perspective of MyDD blogger Chris Bowers, Sen. Russ Feingold may be the key to defeating the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Samuel Alito.
Feingold, D-Wis., is a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and Bowers said Democrats on the panel need to stay unified in voting against Alito if the party is to have any hope of defeating him. Feingold has won plenty of praise from bloggers of late — especially for his fight against the USA PATRIOT Act — but his loyalty to the netroots party line on Alito is in doubt because of Feingold’s earlier vote for the nomination of now-Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.