Posted on 01/12/2006 5:14:27 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Day 4: Hearing Resumes
This morning, Senators will question Judge Alito during a third round. They will then go into a closed session, to review the FBI background investigation on the Supreme Court nominee. Outside witnesses may be called to testify this afternoon, as well as the American Bar Association, to discuss its recommendations.
THURS., 9:00AM ET, C-SPAN
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You are GOOOOOOOOD! You need to call CSPAN and blow their minds with that. :o)
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3:18: Judge Becker is beginning his statement. It details the "intense" relationship among appellate judges. His statement will speak to Judge Alito's tempermant, intellect, integrity, and approach to the law.
With regard to temperment Becker believes the most critical part of the appellate process is the judges' conference. Becker has never seen Alito raise his voice in thousands of conferences. With regard to integrity, Becker is discussing the Vanguard recusal and believes that Judge Alito was not required under the law to recuse himself. With regard to intellect, Becker says his intellect is of a very high order. He is not doctrinaire and will change his mind in light of the views of his colleagues. He does not dissent often. Becker believes Alito has the intellect to sit on the Supreme Court. He is not abstract, he is practical.
With regard to approach to the law, Becker is testifying to fact and not to opinion. Alito decides each case on the facts and not personal views and scrupulous adheres to precedent and is not biased towards any particular class of litigants.
Becker is acknowledging the controversy in Alito's old memos and says that the memos do not reflect his role as a judge. Taking the Judicial oath makes you a different person. Judges do not decide general principles. Alito decides cases as narrowly as possible.
Judge Becker compared Alito's approach to the law to his own. He thinks he is viewed as a mainstream judge. Of the cases in which they sat together -- over a thousand -- Becker and Alito disagreed 27 times.
How does allowing a Japanese Destroyer to cut a ship that you command in half in the middle of the Pacific Ocean make you a hero?
He's beginning to sound like a saint.
:-) Good to be enthusiastic, but after the ABA we have both Dem detractors and Alito Supporters.
I believe he saved all his men from death by drowning.
Actually, he's probably telling the truth there. I'll bet all he ever sees are quarterly financial statements from the accountants and attorneys who manage his trusts, and he probably just skims those. He could probably care less what stocks and corporations his money's coming from, as long as the bar tabs keep getting paid.
Those pictures of Alito's supporters are wonderful. Imagine how bucked up he must feel, knowing Americans think he's terrific and want him on the court.
Or having slept with a Nazi spy and avoided a court martial, allegedly with the influence of the Ambassador, Joe Kennedy.
Thanks for the info. :)
Good testimony
I meant "Scirica," not the deceased judge of Watergate notoriety.
HE IS! He IS a SAINT!
THAT is what make this bashing session from the dems such a ridiculous display of total IDIOCY!
for them- it is about fundraising.... ya think these greedy sob's could stop whoring for their job long enough to DO THEIR JOB!
OY!
He's beginning to sound like a saint.
After sitting in front of Orca the Great, and Leahy, etc. He IS a Saint. St. Alito. LOL! ( I could get used to that).
Judge Berry is quite dramatic.
You're welcome!
LOL! Now we know that they can't count.
We understood. It's a tough name
I feel like I'm listening to Katherine Hepburn.
:-)
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