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.
<<< but picking someone on the basis of race/sex/etc. is just playing the feelgood PR game that, as conservatives, we're supposed to be fighting AGAINST.>>>>
The name of the game is picking the folks who are MOST qualified...
But if you can PROVE that you take into account a court that is more like the social makeup of the country, all the better...
You'll notice that DEMS have a hard time justifying fighting against the racial hole they've dug for themselves...
If as you said there are a bunch of people most qualified, why use a flip of a coin. Why not give it to a woman or an hispanic?
I thought Spectre said he wasn't going to ask about abortion. Am I wrong?
You might have to bean him. Roberts that is.
No kidding. And make you feel a complete small-minded fool in the process. Just like he's making these Senators look.
suggest that while listenig tot he hearfing, and on this thread..you check often to NRO "bench memos"..virtually real-time commentary on the Q&A..many good reads..
It won't matter -- regardless of which black nominee he appoints (assuming he does so), the Dems will say/act like he/she is not black enough...no Bush nominee will ever be "black" enough for their taste.
Interesting.
ROBERTS: Stare Decisis is stronger when dealing with a statute. Weaker when dealing with Constitution.
Expect lots of trial balloons on USSC nominees from the Administration. It keeps the left off-balance, and they will have to spread their resources investigating the records of that many more nominees.
Strategery.
You and I know it's too early for Brown; It would only be seen as a panacea anyway. Then again, Roberts (though of amazing status and accomplishment), was moved up for CJ.
What could be additional problems with Edith Jones that we don't know about?
Stream it or get the audio.
http://www.cspan.org
"NOW HE HAS A CHART!!"
Did he borrow Chuckies charts? I thought only Chucky could have a chart. According to Biden, thats in the Constitution.
McCain's and Feinstein's Campaign Finance law was clearly a violation of the 1st amendment imo, yet the Supremes let it stay. Revisiting that one, I sincerely hope, will come up sometime in the future by the SCOTUS.
Just when I think Hatch is a hack...he surprises me- his breadth of knowledge is impressive..though I'm not a legal scholar.
Roberts loves it, you can see the brain working... he is delighted to talk to anyone with a brain.
To all who doubted Bush and his leadership earlier about the filibuster . . it's worth noting TODAY, that the liberals have spent their political capitol.
They don't have any serious opposition to this great guy.
I congratulate Coach, Frist and Bush for getting the liberals to spend their capitol last year.
Thank You George W. Bush for this Chief Justice of the SCOTUS. You have moved forward the Conservative movement more than I could have hoped.
hope he's stonewalling, but just once I'd like to see a pro-life judge get up there and unabashedly state that Roe was the worst supreme court decision since dred scott (which it was). and then see the republicans suport him without hesitation.
Just wishing...
That is a very interesting answer... hope he is on solid footing.
Edith Jones is wonderful. She has been called Scalia in a skirt, and for good reason. Check out this speech of hers. It might take the nuclear option to get her through.
It was beneath contempt... unbelievable, and we're talking about Specter.
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