[hflynn]

If this was a sporting event the referree would have stopped the hearings after Ted Kennedy's 30 minutes yesterday and declared Roberts the winner.

[Montfort]

"There are now entire generations of women who know a world only where their reproductive rights are protected"

There are entire generations of women and men who were murdered before they were allowed to be born.

[Beth528]

Democrats answer to birth control..Beware these are graphic ictures..http://priestsforlife.org/resources/abortionimages/#galleries

[teletech]

So far, Roberts doesn't sound like a conservative to me. I hope and pray I'm wrong.

[Senator Goldwater]

"What do you tell him? Do you agree with the holding? Do you agree with the outcome, but get there in a different way? In other words, that there is a constitutional right to privacy, the penumbra of which extends to at least the first two trimesters of a woman's pregnancy — what do you tell [Justice Warren]?"

I wouldn't give him an "attaboy" for his work on the Warren Commission.

[The Ghost of FReepers Past]

The answers are misleading, but, with all due respect (not much), so are most of the questions. This is a joke. It's what happens when distorting the Constitution into whatever you want it to mean becomes the m.o of Court with the aid of the politcal ninnies who haven't enough political support to make their changes through legislatures.

[Huck]

I watched some of the hearing late last night on CSPAN, and I have to say that John Roberts is, if nothing else, very intelligent, very well spoken, and extremely well qualified for the job. There's just no getting around any of that. And he appears to also be a man of high character, or else his dirty laundry would be on display by now. Apparantly his laundry is all pressed and folded.

That said, it is clear that we're just not going to know what this guy will do until he does it. There's no point fretting about it. I'm actually very curious. It will be very interesting a year or so from now to see what this guy has wrought. It's such a crap shoot. I mean, if Casey solidified Roe, then we have Ronald Reagan to thank for it, since he brought us O'Connor. You just never know.

One thing is clear though. This guy is probably smarter than most of the other justices on the court (not saying much in the case of Breyer or Ginsberg or Kennedy.)

[Señor Zorro]

"Well, beyond that, it's settled as a precedent of the Court, entitled to respect under principles of stare decisis,"

The author makes it sound like this is just a clever answer meant to hold off the Democrats. I wish I could be so sure. I have a sick feeling that we have another "moderate" in our midst.

If Bush fails to tilt the court with two nominees, his eight yeers were failure.

[msnimje]

Biden and Kennedy were so rude they made me think of Ross Perot on the Larry King Show:



"Can I finish? Can I Finish? Larry, can I finish?"

[Incorrigible]

[uncitizen]

At any rate, this hearing has been very entertaining. I wonder how many people watched. In our house, 4 out of 5 of us watched. And we never watch CSPAN. I think this is being watched by many, many Americans.

[NeoCaveman]

"He didn't say anything," Hatch said, not at all unhappy about that fact. "The closest he came to discussing the law of privacy was on Griswold, but in a very limited sense. He limited it to basically the issue that was discussed in Griswold, which was contraceptives."

Clarence Thomas played this topic exactly like Roberts did.

[Libloather]

At another point, Biden exclaimed, "His answers are misleading!"

Pretty cool - from someone that is comfortable with plagiarism - eh?