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.
Will be nominated for "O'Connor's" seat?
Kennedy is unreal. AND he is "deeply troubled"....
This fat murdering pig is lecturing Roberts. What a disgrace.
That he is.
His historical amnesia goes a lot farther than that, doesn't it? Back to before the Civil War.
Hatch has class the rest so far do not.
Is he talking about Teddy Kennedy's Oldsmobile?
Wonder of the detailed testimony included the dem dead?
Is there a question in this spew?
Get em John.
That is why he's vulnerable. Roberts is gonna kick his arse.
I'm "deeply troubled" Chappaquiddick Ted hasn't been behind bars all these years... ("bars" as in PRISON bars... LOL)
Yes- there is a question. What goes through the minds of the citizens of Massachusetts every six years when they re-elect this man?
Kennedy is weak poser.
It is amazing how Kennedy has to read almost every word from his "script," and leaves little time for Roberts to respond and almost talks on top of Roberts comments, and sometimes cuts him off before he has finished his reply. Kennedy always seems like he has the DT's, and is in a rush to get to the bar (and not the legal one, LOL). He knows he has few opportunities to grandstand anymore, few even listen to him. Like the loud old drunk in the room, he is tolerated, but ignored.
Teddy must not have quality staff writing his questions - he is lost in such a time warp - one would think it is still the 1950s.
Thanks that worked.
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