Roberts (in mind) "And your point is???"
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.
Biden doesn't have a question. He's giving a speech....
UUUNNGGHH!
I INFER "Plugs" Bidenpence is an pompous ass...
Biden shut up.
Looks like Biden is overdue for more sessions of hair plugging.
Classic windbag.
He asks the same question.
That would prove Biden isn't as stupid as I thought he was!
Biden's question ..
Do you agree with the 5th Amendment?
All this bleeping time and THAT is his question??
BINGO .. he just mentioned it
BTW .. is abortion the ONLY law we have?
Brownback is from Kansas, not Colorado...
Biden, you are an idiot!
Fraud I guess? We have Bayh!
Biden is saying, "YOU get to decide." That is, the Supreme Court decides the limitations, whatever isn't spelled out in the Constitution? I thought Article X dealt with that, and X says the states or the people get to decide.
Plugz has a fake fake smile that is grateing.
Roberts just did, shut Biden up
Is anybody aware of a website that publishes transcripts of the hearings?
Look. I can understand Roberts sidesteping the abortion issue and saying he won't comment on any case that has a high probability of seeing the light of day, while he sits on the SC, but calling yourself an originalist, or a constitutionalist should be something any American citizen would be proud to call themselves.
>>>>I think if Roberts had "announced" his thinking was just like Scalia and Thomas, getting confirmed would have been a bit harder.
There is nothing wrong with Roberts being careful in his answers, but those on the right side of the political spectrum can't keep running from challenges just because we are afraid of how the loyal political opposition will react. After all, these hearings are adversarial in nature.
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