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.
Sounds like the old "stop on the name of the law" we used to hear on tv.
That means you get shot if you don't follow the order given by police.
Duh.
The case grew out of a police shooting of a burglary suspect in Memphis in October 1974. Memphis police officer Elton Hymon saw 15-year-old Edward Garner running from a house and shouted for him to halt. When Garner started to climb a chain-link fence in the backyard, Hymon shot him in the back of the head.Apparantly, the memo is available too. I figure if this comes up, Alito will handle it fine in that he was a lwayer counseling his client (the government) as to its involvement in the case.Garner, who was carrying $10 and a purse taken from the house, died at the hospital.
His father sued police and the city, arguing the shooting violated the teenagers Fourth Amendment right against unreasonable search and seizure. The city countered that police were acting under state law and a department policy allowing the use of deadly force in burglary cases.
Asked to prepare a memo on whether the Reagan administration should intervene and how the case should be argued, Alito wrote, The shooting can be justified as reasonable within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment.
The young lawyer contended that a fleeing suspect in effect states to the police: Kill me or let me escape the legal process, at least for now.
He added, If every suspect could evade arrest by putting the state to this choice, societal order would quickly break down.
Alito argued against overturning the Tennessee law, but recommended that the administration stay out of the case.
I just don't get it.
Does he think there's some sort of incipient backlash brewing back home?
That if he's forthright about his opinion-as Rush Limbaugh suggested-and goes out and declares that he refuses to vote for anyone but an avowed socialist, that it'll redound to his detriment?
That the GOP will nominate a sacrificial lamb that might get 20% of the vote next time, instead of merely 18%?
Is there some sort of arrangement with C-SPAN whereby he receives more air-time if he invents a posture of fairness, rather than being up front, and displaying the raging partisan lunatic that almost all of us know him to be?
Or is lying just such a compulsion for him that he can't avoid doing it, even when it's completely unnecessary?
SCOTUS got involved, and invalidated the police policy to shoot fleeing burglars. But get this, O'Connor dissented ;-)
The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in early 1985 that the Tennessee statute and department policy violated Fourth Amendment protections, setting a precedent forbidding the use of deadly force by police except in certain circumstances. Justice Byron White wrote the majoritys decision.Three justices, including Sandra Day OConnor and the late Chief Justice William Rehnquist, dissented, arguing the officer had to shoot in order to prevent Garners escape.
about 9:30 eastern
I didn't notice the pretense ;-)
Bump
They're just getting started..
I thought it was in what I clipped from C-span..
Well, Specter sure shows his Pro-abortion stripes quick.
It's sad that Alito, a Catholic, has to say things that are contrary to his religion in order to get a Supreme Court spot.
He's so irritating. He did the same thing with Roberts.
How does this donkey keep getting elected?
Listening for "superduper" or "super precedent" - so far Specter is avoiding those silly labels.
He just interrupted Alito. You were saying?
I think this stripes are showing, but this takes a bit of the edge off the abortion issue if Kennedy, Fienstein , or Schumer were allowed to bring it up first.
He keeps interrupting him though. Twice he hasn't let Alito finish his answer.
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