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.
What is this about making a law to pull out of a war??
I'm invoking St. Micheal.
Hornbook law?
Leaky interrupting Roberts. Straying off his staff-written questions.
Leahy bait Roberts?? Now that's a laugh.
I've noticed the dems are anti-constitution and pro-political agenda...LIBERAL!
Goes to show labels mean nothing.
Roberts will eat Leaky for lunch too. BRING 'EM ON!
Exactly. Congress appropriates the $$ to fight a war and the President says where they go and when they come home. Congress' only power is the purse strings..
Roberts knows he's having to explain things to a little baby.
Leahy is such a self-absorbed ignoramus.
Mrs Roberts looks so sad and stressed.
A hornbook is a commercially-published outline of a given legal topic. He's using it in the sense of "black-letter law" or "finally settled."
I love it!!
Roberts is a rabid CONSTITUTIONALIST....
And that just burns the heck out of DEMS...
Roberts gently explains to Leaky that he was protecting the powers of the executive branch, which was exactly what he was supposed to be doing.
Roberts is taking Leahy to school!
Leaky is "vastly over reading" the memorandum.
LOL
Remember that question Leaky just asked about passing a law to pull out of a war ... betcha the Dems will try and do that
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