Posted on 09/13/2005 5:01:31 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
Q&A with Roberts to Start
On Tuesday, the eighteen members of the Senate Judiciary Cmte. begin questioning Chief Justice nominee John Roberts. This will take all day, with the senators asking their questions, up to a half-hour for each member, in order of seniority, alternating by party.
The Schedule (media advisory)
Tentative Schedule for the Hearing: Schedule is subject to change
Tuesday, Sept. 13
9:30 am Chairman Specter begins 30 minute round of questioning (Round 1)
1:00 pm Break for lunch
2:00 pm Resume questioning
6:00 pm Break for dinner
7:00 pm Resume questioning
8:30 pm Round 1 questioning ends
The Dem playbook
The Hill newspaper gives us a peek at the Democratic playbook for the Roberts hearings. Below are the attack assignments for the Democratic members of the Committee:
Kennedy -- civil rights
Leahy -- Bybee torture memo
Biden -- privacy, personal autonomyand the 9th Amendment
Kohl -- Property rights and civil liberties
Feinstein -- "judicial activism" and Roe vs. Wade
Feingold -- limits of executive powers
Schumer and Durbin have wisely refused to show their hand.
Via FromTheBleachers
LIVE LINKS
Senate Judiciary Committee webcast.
LOL. Right, do something productive!
It seems that's all she cares about
Feinstein hasn't asked Chuck Schumer to let women become full members of his lodge.
Oh Good! I love him!
Roberts knows better than to answer that.
Smart move.
sweet
I'm listening through NPR...
Is there a second round of questioning, and do the rules of the game change in the second round?
Have you noticed that none of the Democrats ever LOOK at him during his answers? They're speed reading ahead to the next question their staff wrote for them.
Apparently Roberts is just gonna tell em, he's not saying anything other nominees didn't have to say.
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Gosh, he's impressive. He never once has to refer to notes, whereas the senators have to read all of their questions and comments.
I'm stuck on the phone. MAYBE THAT'S A GOOD THING.
Where I live, the people think that Roe V Wade is a decision to be made on how to cross the Susquehanna River.
Nobody would sleep with that hag. Wonder why she is so worried about abortion.
He should not answer her. Here she goes getting specific on Casey.
But there is a 15 min break after DiFi.
Would you?
If he does, then the "next time" they'll just point to his answers saying, "He did it, why won't you?"
She didn't think it was a joke, and didn't get the Shakespeare reference from Roberts. She must have missed that class in HS.
LMAO!
Kennedy and Biden are dickheads. Why Mass and DE keep putting these two morons in each year is beyond me. Then again, maybe the citizens of MA and DE are brain dead. That's a plausible explanation.
5.56mm
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