The top story at the NYT on Saturday morning remains the battle over Judge Alito's confirmation. As I predicted, opposition groups are expected to kick up some dust about abortion rights, among other issues:

Despite growing certainty about the ultimate conclusion after five days of hearings, interest groups on both sides announced plans on Friday to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on television commercials intended to influence the outcome.

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Officials of liberal groups insisted that they still held hope of blocking confirmation. Conservative organizers, on the other hand, said privately that their advertisements were partly a victory lap to call attention to a fight the president was winning after a spate of setbacks.

Contrast this coverage with WaPo, where the front page on Saturday morning looks like this (click the link to see the full page):

Washington Post: Saturday, January 14, 2006 | 1:26 a.m. ET

You need to look waaaaay down at the bottom of the page to find any mention of the confirmation, and that's a box with stale links (of the three links, two are "A TV Guide to the Hearings" and "Suggestions for Cross Examination"). I guess WaPo is just ready to move on?

UPDATE: If you are still interested in reading about Judge Alito, Larry Ribstein has a new column in Forbes entitled "Justice Alito on Business."

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