Posted on 01/16/2006 3:45:21 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
I don't suppose she mentioned that Judge Becker's wife held Vanguard, too, and he didn't recuse himself, huh?
You forgot the "sarcasm tag".
from the January 17, 2006 edition
For Senate Democrats, a last stand on Alito
By Gail Russell Chaddock | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON – After an unflappable 18 hours before a panel of 18 senators last week, Judge Samuel Alito is all but assured confirmation in the full Senate - just not by Friday.
At 11 a.m. Tuesday, Senate Democrats are expected to delay the vote, despite an agreement with the panel's chairman, Sen. Arlen Specter (R) of Pennsylvania, to move Judge Alito's nomination toward a final Senate vote by Jan. 20.
The delay would give Democrats a last chance to discuss strategy on this vote face to face, to sift through Alito's response to written questions, to revisit hearing transcripts, and to do one last nose count on whether there is support for a filibuster to block the vote.
"It is a momentous decision, and they need more time to think about it," says Carl Tobias, a constitutional law professor at the University of Richmond Law School.
It also gives groups opposing the nomination another week - and the Jan. 23 anniversary of the 1973 Roe. v. Wade decision, expected to draw hundreds of thousands to the nation's capital on the eve of the new vote - around which to organize.
"Nothing is over until it's over," says Marcia Greenberger, copresident and founder of the National Women's Law Center, which opposes Judge Alito. "What's really important is to let the dust settle a little and to let the implications of these hearings settle in."
Anti-Alito activists say they can pick up another million signatures in the run-up to a delayed vote, in a bid to focus senators' attention on the threat they say he poses to abortion rights, protection from discrimination on the job, and curbs on the abuse of executive power.
"Did I hear FNC report that Specter caved again and the vote on Alito won't be this week but will be on the 27th instead?"
One thing for sure, the dems cannot under any valid circumstances, claim they weren't given time to knock Alito out!!
I think I heard FNC say the vote has been moved to the 27th. So much for Frist's threat, huh?
The two claimed and one was awarded the shares.
IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE COMPANY AT ALL BUT WHO WOULD INHERIT.
If indeed that is the case, it was recusing himself after the fact that created the whole flapdoodle. Walking the second mile that way merely sets you up for the bushwhackers.
No, they were listed as co-defendants.
No, they were listed as co-defendants.
The purpose of the case was to have the court tell Vanguard to give the money to particular person. A court cannot give such an order to an entity that isn't party to a proceeding before it.
As a party to the proceedings, Vanguard would have had the option to argue that it should not give the money to the plaintiff, and to introduce evidence to that effect. Had Vanguard sought to do so, Judge Alito's recusal would have been appropriate. From my understanding of the case, though, Vanguard's "case" was basically "Just tell us what to do, Judge, and we'll do it." Vanguard's main concern was that they didn't want to do anything they weren't ordered to do; had they given the money to one party without a court order and the other party could show it should have gotten the money, they could have gone after Vanguard. But if Vanguard was ordered to give the money to the first party, it could not be sued for having done so.
The more the Democrats lie about Alito, the more the public supports him.
Hey, I'm from Pennsylvania, and I want you to know that Sen. Specter is a MOSTLY useless POS. Once every blue moon he does something surprisingly "non-POS-ish". Of course, he apologizes profusely afterwards and then refers to Scottish law.....
LOL! In Aussie parlance, Specter is "a bloody old goose"!
As the hearing was going on last week I heard that using the procedural rules of the Senate the Dems could delay the committe vote a week and there was nothing the Republicans could do about it. After that the Republicans can (and better) push things forward and the Dems can't do anything about it.
Then Frist shouldn't have issued his press release which threatened to withold vacation time unless the vote was held this week. It makes him look silly.
The person appealed on the grounds that the Judge had Vanguard stock so he felt it was best to have the case retried by another panel. The second panel voted unanimously in the same manner that Judge Alito had decided.
OBSTRUCT OBSTRUCT OBSTRUCT.
I think Frist is doing what he said he would do:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1557863/posts
He said the Senate will start work the day after the committee reports out and cancel recess for the week of January 23rd if they don't get a vote by the 20th.
I'm assuming the full Senate will start work on the 25th after the commitee vote on the 24th with a final vote before the end of the week.
Personally I hope the Dems filibuster and the Republicans get rid of it and take that obstructionist tool out of the Dems hands now. Renominate Estrada and get him and up or down vote. Maybe dreaming on that one...
You didn't read the whole thing if you think Frist is doing what he said he'd do.
This:
If Democrats delay final action past January 20th, he will cancel the recess for the week of January 23rd which he had previously scheduled with the knowledge of Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).
Well, they delayed final actin past 1/20, and he's doing nothing.
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