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Nomination of John G. Roberts [LIVE Thread 9-13]~Day Two
Senate Judiciary ^ | 9-13-05 | Senate Judiciary Committee

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

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Senate Judiciary Committee webcast.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 109th; chiefjustice; confirmationhearing; johnroberts; judiciary; judiciarycommittee; livethread; roberts; robertshearings; scotus
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To: LisaFab

Tell me again... Specter is a Republican?


141 posted on 09/13/2005 6:54:37 AM PDT by Carolinamom (Life is a journey, not a destination.)
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To: All

Can you even imagine having to sit there all day and answer questions from people who are clearly your intellectual inferiors? My daily allowance of patience would have been shot by 9:43 am.


142 posted on 09/13/2005 6:54:42 AM PDT by Kylie_04
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To: tcrlaf

F'n Spectre won't shut the h*ll up about Roe! What the h*ll is with this monster????


143 posted on 09/13/2005 6:54:50 AM PDT by Romish_Papist (Trying to get my head straight. I'll return to FR in a few weeks. Until then, thanks for the prayers)
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To: tcrlaf

They want him to sell his soul.


144 posted on 09/13/2005 6:54:57 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: tcrlaf

Perhaps they should require him to perform an abortion in the hearing room. If he refuses, off with his head!


145 posted on 09/13/2005 6:55:03 AM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: longtermmemmory

Specter is inching to his LOONEY SUPERPRECIDENT theory.

specter is a legal buffoon.

The real question is who are specter's staffers. He must have NARAL staffers on his staff.


146 posted on 09/13/2005 6:55:18 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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To: OXENinFLA
"Senator Kennedy, Do you think Judge Roberts should be disqualified if we found out that he once drove off a bridge, while drunk, and then ran away leaving his female passenger to suffocate?"

A good question!

147 posted on 09/13/2005 6:55:30 AM PDT by Mo1
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To: Jrabbit

Big difference between Miranda warnings and killing babies.


148 posted on 09/13/2005 6:55:38 AM PDT by Bahbah
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To: All

Is somebody taking a count of just how many questions Roberts is being asked regarding Roe V. Wade? Is there NOT anything else besides killing the unborn that is important to these people?


149 posted on 09/13/2005 6:55:51 AM PDT by PilloryHillary
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To: TexasNative2000

THIS is the one I'm waiting for.....

It's would be GREAT to see how DEMS handle an attack on her, while trying to say "We're Not Racist"....

BUT....
I believe the next nominee will be Garcia from Texas...


150 posted on 09/13/2005 6:55:56 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: Carolinamom

Spectre is a Republican as Kennedy is a Catholic.


151 posted on 09/13/2005 6:56:02 AM PDT by Jrabbit
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To: AliVeritas
Specter is grasping at straws.

Miranda has nothing to do w/ Roe.
152 posted on 09/13/2005 6:56:09 AM PDT by OXENinFLA
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To: TexasNative2000; mtbopfuyn
In the big picture, the next shoe to drop is Bush naming Janice Rogers Brown for the O'Conner seat and putting the Dems in the box of attacking a black woman who has been nominated by a President who 'hates blacks'.

Bush will not nominate Janice Rogers Brown to the Supreme Court. Edith Jones is the leading female candidate, a judge Bush knew in Texas and now sits on the 5th Court of Appeals in New Orleans (but is now in Houston).

Brown just got her Appeals' Court position six months ago. And she's way too hot politically in the current environment.

153 posted on 09/13/2005 6:56:46 AM PDT by sinkspur (It is time for those of us who have much to share with those who have nothing.)
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To: CharlesWayneCT
I'm waiting for double-super-duper precedent.

And if Roberts doesn't buy into double-super-duper precedent, he'll be placed on double-secret probation and double-super-duper-fibuster.

154 posted on 09/13/2005 6:56:59 AM PDT by You Dirty Rats (Roberts = CHIEF; 'Rats = GRIEF)
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To: PilloryHillary

Welcome to the necrocrat party, wait till you see the Cadaver News Network tonight. Now they're raking Rehnquist to get to him (who's obviously has just died).


155 posted on 09/13/2005 6:57:23 AM PDT by AliVeritas (Ignorance is a condition. Stupidity is a strategy.)
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To: Carolinamom
Specter is the best definition we have of a RINO.

sw

156 posted on 09/13/2005 6:57:28 AM PDT by spectre (Spectre's wife)
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To: Jrabbit

LOL!!

It would seem that's the ONLY thing that would Keep DEMS happy....

And they get offended when people call them a Death Cult..


157 posted on 09/13/2005 6:57:36 AM PDT by tcrlaf
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To: Peach
Considering that Specter said he wouldn't ask Roberts about Roe v Wade, this is astounding!

I'm not surprised. A liar is a liar. A ghoul is a ghoul. And a tiger is a tiger.

158 posted on 09/13/2005 6:57:51 AM PDT by NeoCaveman ("Government is not the solution, it is the problem" - Ronald Reagan)
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To: You Dirty Rats

2 mins and counting. Who's up next?


159 posted on 09/13/2005 6:57:55 AM PDT by mtbopfuyn (Legality does not dictate morality... Lavin)
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To: OXENinFLA

Specter is a disgrace. The only thing he's interested in is maintaining abortion. Why the Frist didn't dump him in the beginning of the term will haunt us.


160 posted on 09/13/2005 6:58:04 AM PDT by KenmcG414
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