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.
Apparently Kennedy has forgotten that the Democrats were AGAINST The Civil Rights Act and if not for Republicans, it would not have been passed.
I hope one of the Dims gets hysterical on him and he stays unflappable.
OMG..........*spit take*
kennedy: "Hash anyone sheen my liiva ?!"
Kennedy is attempting...to set Roberts up. He is trying to turn him into a racist. Unbelievable.
Fat Ted has to READ his questions...no doubt prepared by his staf...yet Roberts answers every question w/OUT reading notes. Question: On the basis of the above fact, which of these two is smarter? LOL
I'd give just about anything if Roberts would say something like that to the Chappaquidick Lifegaurd.
Roberts is now talking over Teddy's head!
Browns and Jets BOTH had Belichek...gawd..
a flip of the coin is better?
Senator what about civil rights for Mary Joe?
Roberts is on top of it. Kennedy has never practiced law.
It won't work.
Again.
Me too. My first choice is Chuckie. Fat Teddy lecturing now, to a man who is in every way his superior.
Seems to me Kennedy is trying to get Roberts to say, "This law is okay...so is this one...etc. etc. and THEN The Swimmer (or some other Demon-Rat) will say, "WELL WHAT ABOUT ROE!!??"
The Rats think they'll "trap" Roberts there...but it won't work. :)
No contest, put all the Dem brains together Robert's still comes out ahead.
It isn't hard to do.
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