Raw Story: Filibuster Ranks now in 30s

Recent reports are that Sen Mark Dayton will support the filibuster, Sen Mark Pryor (R) will abstain, and the Sen Ensign (R) has been in a car accident and will be unable to vote. Raw Story now reports that Sen Lincoln Chaffee (R) now opposes Alito and the whip-count for a Filibuster is rapidly approaching the magic number 41.

Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee (R-RI) announced this morning in Providence that he will vote against the nomination of Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr. to the Supreme Court.

In a statement this morning, the Rhode Island senator said he was "greatly concerned" about some of Alito's philosophies, according to the Providence Journal. Chafee is the first Republican to announce a vote against Alito.

The Journal did not say whether the senator would back a filibuster. Liberal Democrats Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. John Kerry (D-MA) are mounting an eleventh-hour bid to block the nominee.

The current unofficial count has reportedly "broken 30". Only a few more to go.

Vyan