Nomination of John G. Roberts [LIVE Thread 9-13]~Day Two

Senate Judiciary ^ | 9-13-05 | Senate Judiciary Committee

[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

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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

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[syriacus]

Diane Fin.. is shooting dagers at Sessions

Sessions is smiling with mirth
As he speaks about comparable worth.
Feinstein's not glad
Her team is so bad
Of sluggers the Dems have a dearth.

[mosquitobite]

that opportunity will have been squandered on another vain attempt by a Republican president to make friends out of Democrats and mushy-middleroaders who will ever and always hate him and everything he stands for.

The Republicans never blow an opportunity to blow an opportunity. ;)
AMEN!

[BigEdLB]

One wonders about folks living shelterd lives if they are discussing attractvieness of female politicians.

However some years ago there was the congresswoman from NYC who married another congreassman from upstate New York, and they had a kid. She was kinda cute. But she was GOP. Molinari?

[CharlesWayneCT]

I've actually enjoyed the more recent democrat questioning. First, I think it is better for them to ask their questions, get the answers, and then go out later and give their opinions about the answers -- because they look stupid when they contradict him and he slaps them down.

But many of their questions are reasonable, and I enjoy hearing the responses. I wouldn't enjoy hearing their stupid statements ABOUT the responses.

[mware]

LOL, just a little joke there.

Take that BIden.

[republicofdavis]

OK I won't do a personal attack. I'll simply say that I will be amazed if Scalia ever said such a thing. I can't imagine why he would have said it before it became an issue with Roberts. If he said it after it became an issue with Roberts, then I'm amazed that we don't all know it.

But hey, if you pull it out I will stand corrected and revise my remarks. Until then, it seems more likely that you just made it up.

[deputac]

Sorry about that, I'm in the NYC area and yes, I'm sorry about Schumer and Hillary! But, it's not my fault!

[Soul Seeker]

Sessions nails it! Doesn't want to (shouldn't have to) consult the transcipt of this hearing before ruling on future cases. LOL

[samadams2000]

"Bush lied..people died..we wont stop til genocide!" oh sorry I thought this was a DNC site....

[OESY]

Roberts just demolished his opposition with his excellent comments on the process of arriving at a judicial decision. Game, Set, Match.

[American Quilter]

I blame myself. I let the Spiegel catalog into the house.

You couldn't have known.

[onyx]

I heard that!

I don;t think liberals have the right to twist their agenda into law? Something like that! Sessions is GREAT!

[Miss Marple]

You know what? You can examine a potential justice every which way from Sunday, get him to swear a blood oath that he will vote a certain way, and you STILL couldn't be 100% certain that he would vote the way you want every single time.

Oresident Bush made his nomination of Judge Roberts on 3 criteria: judicial temperment (which we are seeing here today), judicial philosophy (which he is explaining) and character. That is all we can ask of the President.

I firmly believe that Roberets wil be an excellent Chief Justice, probably the best in at least 100 years.

[auboy]

Jeff Sessions is the real deal. Proud to call him a fellow Alabamian and American.

[Mo1]

WOW ... did I miss Jeff ... did he just get on??

I love this Senator

[WoodstockCat]

I agree. It just does a huge historical injustice to anyone who suffered under the true totalitarian leaders such as Hitler and Stalin to equate anything less than the actions to score a political point.

It's just another indication of how debate in this country really doesn't exist anymore at least in it's form prior to the Vietnam War.

Very few leftists know how to make a point and support it without slowly degrading into name-calling, frustration and playing the "slave" or "nazi" card.

[tiredoflaundry]

Sen. "as cute as a button" is almost done with his time :-(

[republicofdavis]

Thanks for the backup!

[onyx]

Yes, he's on his last 15 minutes for this round. He's been magnificent.

[mware]

LOL did you see the scowl on Leahy's face? He is not amused.