What do you think of Graham's line of questioning. It seems to me he is not advancing the Alito cause, but rather is trying to advance his own political positions on some things under consideration in the Congress. I am not liking this very much. He's trying to get Alito to carry HIS water, it seems to me.
Graham is just doing what the Dems were doing...
Alito is in. We all know it.
Why not counter the left's attacks on Bush's wiretaps? I like it.
I think he's following up on some F'gold blather
I like what he's saying but I don't think it's appropriate for Alito's hearing. He's going to get the Judge in trouble if he answers the way Lindsey wants him to.
I'm not digging Graham's line of questioning either, he is not helping the cause at all. Alito looks bewildered by his questions, and frankly, Graham appears a bit wild-eyed and tanked.
I don't mind the line of questioning. The reason if comes off badly is that Alito hasn't outlined how the branches interact in wartime/peacetime mix. IOW, Graham has free reign to assert his own sense of how things should be. And recall that Graham is ex-JAG< and is likely biased toward military tribunal. ALito's function will be to balance military wishes with civilian wishes, in light of Congressional edict.
Graham should know this too, because he is the one who proposed a statutoty amendment to overrisde SCOTUS holding that Gitmo detainees were entitled to habeas (access to civilian courts), period. COngress has the power to set the prmeters, until in bumps into "execution of war" detail decisions. That law is emerging wher we now have terror "war" on our own soil. The answers can't emerge from this hearing.
I do agree that Congress and Courts have roles, so Lindsey has at least one thing right. ANyway, like you, I am not liking this unfolding of line of question AT ALL; but I do think it could have been (and should have been) a place for Alito to shine.