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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"The funeral director was an insinsitive boor."
When I miscarried, my doctor called my baby, 'a product of conception.' It took me years to get over that remark. In the hospital, I was asked if I was the one who had an abortion. I know it is a spontaneous abortion but the word bothers me to no end.
DNC-Span caller- Swimmer has no respect for women, dead or alive.
Spector suprised me... the way he bloviated before the hearings I was afraid he was going to be tough on Alito.
At least you're not confused, concerned or perplexed.
Sorry if duplicate ...
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/profiles/facultyProfile.php?facID=4360
Goodwin Liu
Title: Assistant Professor of Law
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Goodwin Liu's primary areas of expertise are constitutional law, education policy, civil rights, and the Supreme Court. His latest work in progress, "Education, Equality, and National Citizenship," seeks to anchor a federal legislative duty to remedy educational inadequacy and inequality in the Fourteenth Amendment's Citizenship Clause.
Liu is the author of "The Parted Paths of School Desegregation and School Finance Litigation," forthcoming in Law & Inequality (2005); "School Choice to Achieve Desegregation" in Fordham Law Review (2005) (with William L. Taylor); "Brown, Bollinger, and Beyond" in Howard Law Journal’s 2004 volume commemorating the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education; "Separation Anxiety: Congress, the Courts, and the Constitution" in Georgetown Law Journal (2003) (with Hillary Rodham Clinton); and "The Causation Fallacy: Bakke and the Basic Arithmetic of Selective Admissions" in Michigan Law Review (2002). With Christopher Edley, he is co-director of a multi-year, multi-disciplinary project called "Rethinking Rodriguez: Education as a Fundamental Right" in Boalt's newly launched Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity.
Before joining the Boalt faculty in 2003, Liu was an appellate litigator at O'Melveny & Myers in Washington. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg during the October 2000 term and for Judge David Tatel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1998 to 1999. He also served as special assistant to the deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Education from 1999 to 2000, and as senior program officer for higher education at the Corporation for National Service (AmeriCorps) from 1993 to 1995.
Liu, a Rhodes Scholar, serves on the board of directors of the American Constitution Society in Washington, the ACLU of Northern California, and Chinese for Affirmative Action in San Francisco. He is currently chair of the Haas Center for Public Service National Advisory Board at Stanford University. From 2001 to 2004, he was a vice-chair of Stanford's Trustee Task Force on Minority Alumni Relations.
Education:
B.S., Stanford University (1991)
M.A., Oxford University (1993)
J.D., Yale Law School (1998)
is that the case they said he might have been wrongly put to death?
Something sounds fishy?? If ABC knows then FBI should know and be all over it - or is this another network leak that will blow the cover of whoever is on the inside trying to nail them before they nail us?
I am from Grundy, VA. All of us already knew Roger was guilty.
So how many more days of this nonsense do we got to put up with? Any chance of a VOTE this month?
Let's face it, no matter how much we despise McVAIN we don't have anyone prominent enough, of course with the exception of Rice who has already said NO to running, in our party to take on the SHE-DEVIL...this is very worrisome! :( T
"WASHINGTON - Off camera, the confirmation hearings of Samuel Alito offer better entertainment than what makes it to the TV screen.
Witnesses are abruptly uninvited.
Senators, their faces pancaked with makeup, openly yawn.
One, fidgeting, accidentally kicks the backside of a photographer squatting just in front of the senators' dais.
With Democrats and liberal interest groups struggling to land a punch on President Bush's second Supreme Court nominee, Alito appears on a smooth track to confirmation.
But away from the lights, drama unfolds.
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Meanwhile, off camera, Sen. Patrick Leahy, the committee's highest-ranking Democrat, fidgeted in his seat at the head of the committee table. Dozens of news photographers squatted below him in the "well" between the dais and Alito's table, in position to get their images of the nominee.
"I discovered some obstacle under the table and I tried a few times to move it out of the way with my foot," Leahy, D-Vt., wrote in his blog. "I discovered in mortification that it was a press photographer, wedged in front of the dais."
"God bless 'em all for all they do and for all they endure," Leahy wrote
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For his part, the nominee was showing a bit of wear on his third day of hearings.
On television Wednesday morning, a five-o'clock shadow and a sheen of perspiration showed through any makeup Alito may have been wearing.((((I DID NOT SEE A TRACE OF MAKEUP ON HIM}}}
And that was after a night of sleep. The evening before, as nearly 10 hours of hearings drew to a close, Alito in person looked notably wan, his eyes red with fatigue." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gotta give credit to the writer, Laurie Kellman -- she didn't stint on visiting her observations on both sides. Her apt description of Biden's Princeton moments shows him for the bloated hypocrite he is.
Thanks for that info on that kid; I'd just gotten back and couldn't figure out who the heck he was and why anything he'd have to say (since he doesn't know Alito) was given any weight whatsoever.
Missed most of the thread today and just got home ... WTF was Lucy Liu doing testifying today?
I saw that too. The anti-capital punishment people were really counting on that one. *smiles smugly* So they were wrong.
DNC-span caller- DNC talking points and closes with "republicans grandstanded"?next caller "catholics are ruled by the pope"
the FBI is all over it
So the network bought the phone cards from the terrorists? If so, doesn't that mean the terrorists are selling phone cards to finance their operations and ABC is enabling the terrorists (again)?
Isn't he a doctor? Touchy-feely goes with the profession as does kindly asking questions to get to the root of problems.
he came to make Biden and Kennedy feel good
Male Senators wear make-up for a hearing??? Ick
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