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
Senate Judiciary Committee webcast.
He did sound a little edgy.
WHY IS HE TALKING SO FAST??????
Pretty soon he'll be out in the hall closet with the janitors.
Leni
NO NOTES!
I am in complete and total AWE.
How would you like to have Dickie Turbin as one of your Senators? Couple that with the ever-eloquent rising star Barrak Obama. Lord help Illinois!
Roberts--will answer question but the position advanced in Gonzaga case prevailed. Feingold Slammed again to the ground.
You've got that right.
I personally like his answers on Stare Decisis. Basically, all he is saying is that he respects judicial precedents and will give due consideration to them. That doesn't mean that he would blindly follow them. Both he and John Kyle agreed that settled caselaw can be overruled as new circumstances come to light.
In other words, he'll start out by treating Roe v. Wade as settled law, and then proceed to tear it to shreds with other arguments. After all, Plessy v. Fergusan was settled law for 58 years before it was overturned by Brown v. Board of Education.
Even at that, he will wipe the floor with Schumer.
Me too, but I'm sure Mrs Roberts is wired & is giving Judge Roberts all the answers! ;-)
For the same reason Alan Colmes does--he hopes if he speaks really quickly, he can make a bunch of unsupported assertions and then move on before the other person can correct him.
I hate to be repetitive, but Roberts has NO NOTES!
He's beyond brilliant and so is the man who nominated him!
Misunderestimated again. LOL!!!!!!!!
No, neither of the above. Feingold is an actual idiot. Period. And a pompous one at that. (It appears I'm repeating myself. I hope the rest of the country sees what a waste of skin Feingold is. What an idiot.
I'd love to be her. :)
Nothing beats a SMART man.
Any dem who votes AGAINST Roberts will be doing so because they're so d*mn JEALOUS of his ability.
Yes, I take my hat off to the President.
He's trying to trip up Roberts
I ain't working .. Roberts is listening to EVERY word Feingold said
This guy is good!!
Lindsey up now.
Feingold got a whippin'.
Yeppers! I just sent an e-mail to the DNC, asking them if they were having a contest for the biggest Ass!
The Dim senators may know this, but MoveOn, PFAW and the rest of the crazies will never acknowledge that, and will be foaming at the mouth enraged by the Dims' inability to lay a glove on Roberts. They will flay these senators alive, and demand they go all out to destroy him.
And what choice will the Dims have? They hack off the Michael Moore/Cindy Sheehan crowd, all their fund raising dries up overnight. We'll be seeing some true gutter tactics in the coming days as they get increasingly desperate.
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