Posted on 01/10/2006 4:14:05 AM PST by OXENinFLA
ALITO CONFIRMATION HEARINGS
Questioning Begins Today
Each of the eighteen senators on the Judiciary Cmte. will have 30 minutes to question Supreme Court nominee Samual Alito today during round one. Sen. Arlen Specter, as chairman, will begin, then they will alternate by party in order of individual seniority. Round two starts on Wednesday.
i agree
just gop bashing
Someone needs to take this analysis, and apply it to a liberal judge, like Ginsburg, I'll bet the findings would be surprising. Sounds like a Freeper project.
Oh yeah...it was firebombed..
http://etcweb1.princeton.edu/CampusWWW/WWWfiles/Companion/reserve_officers_training_corps.html
scroll down to the bottom of article..
Doesnt look like Hatch appreciates the lefts personal, false attacks on Alito.
Yes, but he still backed down on the issue. Said he didn't recall being a member, but if he was, the reason was the ROTC. Should have just said that yes, he was a member and then explain why. It sounded a little eely the way he did it.
i want to hear schumer explain why the bar is no longer the gold standard of approval....it was b4 for him
yup , this is GOOD!!
One thing I learned about Alito yesterday that I didn't know .. he was in the reserves
Just kiddin', Hacth is always excellent in these hearings. He cuts through the fog laid down by desperate dims with ease. In fact, I think he is much more effective when he is not in the Chair, it allows him to be a bit more hardcore conservative.
I'm working....
I need a score update!!!!!!!
Looked at ESPN but they are not covering this :-)
Last check it was Alito - 10 & Dems - 0
ted asked for that study himself
How ?
I'm so damn proud of W for nomintaing these intelligent, well-grounded men for SCOTUS. They might not always rule the way some conservatives want, but you can be sure they will follow the law and the Constitution. That's all we can ask.
Yea right! Ask Ted to find out why cars don't float, too!
Yup, Aly OOto is a vet, a repentative of a "group" we desperately need on the SCOTUS. The dims can think of it as "affirmative action" if they must justify voting for his confirmation.
Thx for bringing that up; whether he is voted in or not, this is a reflection on President Bush.
You are right. I hadn't looked at Hatch's situation this way before.
Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:
In Monday's hearings, Massachusetts Democrat Ted Kennedy expressed concern over an "academic study," which he said showed that Supreme Court Nominee Samuel Alito ruled against individual rights in 84 percent of his dissents — arguing that "average Americans have had a hard time getting a fair shake" in Alito's courtroom.
National Review reports, however, that Kennedy himself commissioned the study by liberal University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein. What Kennedy did not mention is that in addition to his statistical conclusions, Professor Sunstein also found that "Judge Alito's opinions are carefully reasoned, well-done, attentive to law, lawyerly, and unfailingly respectful to his colleagues," adding, "the law, fairly interpreted, could well be taken to support" Alito's view.
A not so uncommon occurrence at that time.
Hatch is great. Do you remember during the first (2002) Roberts hearings when he told Schumer to stop asking dumbass questions?
Schumer asked if Hatch wanted to correct the record.
Hatch said, no, as much as he liked Schumer, Hatch knew a dumbass question when he heard one.
LOL! And it's in the record.
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