Ted mentioning Katrina.
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.
Here comes the bashing of Roberts via the downtrodden.
Can he hold up a picture of Mary Jo or ask how many evacs he has at his house?
Protect the most vulnerable? Like Mary Jo?
Ted mentioning Katrina.
Kennedy: Not a handout but a hand up for the people who most need it such as we witnessed in the Gulf these last few weeks. (paraphrase)
Kennedy is no statesmen.
How about Mary Jo Kopechne's rights under the law, Ted?
Is he going to ask if he'll overturn Brown v. Board of Ed? This stuff is so old hat. The country has moved on, Teddy.
But how many TIMES do they get a "handup?"
We've been doing that for years.
Uhhh...Ted, do you have a question here?
"If as you said there are a bunch of people most qualified, why use a flip of a coin. Why not give it to a woman or an hispanic?"
Because it's preferential treatment on the basis of sex or ethnic background, and I think that's wrong, just as I think "affirmitive action" is abhorrent.
Yeah, but I think his reaction will be more like that of swatting a fly than losing his cool.
I'm talking about "throwing-up"
LOL.
I meant it in a philosphical way.
Exactly.
I just laugh when they say "The American people want to know..."
As if they're even paying attention.
Now there's some heavy irony.
BTW, did something just block out the sun?
Does anyone else think that Kennedy and Michael Jackson share a plastic surgeon? Ks nose seems to have quite a variablity in size from year to year.
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