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.
15 minutes
I see; as long as it's YOUR issue, it's fine. DUH.
When does the Seed Of Chucky (schumer) get to vent his spleen?
For SCOTUS? Is he? Are we? LOL!
Benjamin Wittis(?)
Not sure about the last name, if that is correct.
Writes for Washington Post
Let Go of Roe- Sounds as though that's the title of the piece.
Published in Atlantic Monthly, January of '05
Look at it this way ken. They know they have nothing to stop JR (Roberts). They also know their base will accept JR as CJ because he's "replacing" Rhenquist and not O'Connor.
So, in order to seem 'bi-partisan' for the next nomination (where they will really go full tilt), a few might peel off and vote for JR. It will give them cover for the BIG fight coming up whenever W announces the next nominee.
We all do, but I don't think we can say that Roberts won't. We have nothing to base that assumption on.
I should have known. Depend on the Dems to fail to recognize a major event.
http://sessions.senate.gov/bio.htm
No, he's not too old!
Anyone been on DU to see how the DUmmies are taking today? I can't find a thread on the hearing there.
NOW president on CSPAN3 now... blah!
A person who flatters or defers to others for self-serving reasons; a sycophant.[From TOAD.]
WORD HISTORY The earliest recorded sense (around 1690) of toady is “a little or young toad,” but this has nothing to do with the modern usage of the word. The modern sense has rather to do with the practice of certain quacks or charlatans who claimed that they could draw out poisons. Toads were thought to be poisonous, so these charlatans would have an attendant eat or pretend to eat a toad and then claim to extract the poison from the attendant. Since eating a toad is an unpleasant job, these attendants came to epitomize the type of person who would do anything for a superior, and toadeater (first recorded 1629) became the name for a flattering, fawning parasite. Toadeater and the verb derived from it, toadeat, influenced the sense of the noun and verb toad and the noun toady, so that both nouns could mean “sycophant” and the verb toady could mean “to act like a toady to someone.”
noun -- One who flatters another excessively: adulator, courtier, flatterer, sycophant. Informal apple-polisher. See over/under, praise/blame.
verb -- To support slavishly every opinion or suggestion of a superior: bootlick, cringe, fawn, grovel, kowtow, slaver, truckle. Informal apple-polish, brownnose, cotton. Slang suck up. Idioms: curry favor, dance attendance, kiss someone's feet, lick someone's boots. See over/under.
And now Ellie Smeal.... can you say... feminazi!
Yes Ma'am. He's not too old.
Sessions for SCOTUS!
LOL
Patients is a virtue.
See post 2060.
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