Democrats "Prejudging" Alito

Media Matters notes that:

During CNN's live January 11 coverage of Supreme Court nominee Samuel A. Alito Jr.'s hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Situation Room host Wolf Blitzer again accused Democrats -- but not Republicans -- of prejudging Alito's nomination. "Some Democrats are delivering an early verdict on Alito's performance," Blitzer declared, as the onscreen text read "Democrats" and "Early Judgements [sic]." Later, Blitzer suggested that Democrats were using the hearings to mount a case against Alito, rather than to assess his fitness for elevation to the Supreme Court.

Of course, it's not as if the Republicans hadn't pre-judged this. The New York Times reported this morning that one Republican member of the Judiciary Committee, Lindsay Graham, had actually participated in coaching Alito prior to the hearings. Graham announced yesterday that he had already made up his mind. So much for who is prejudging.