Posted on 01/13/2006 5:38:54 AM PST by OXENinFLA
5th & Final Day of Hearings
This morning, the Senate Judiciary Cmte. convenes for a final session in the nomination hearings of Judge Samuel Alito. Outside witnesses who did not testify at yes- terday's hearings are given an opportunity to offer their opinions on the nominee. The Cmte. meets again to vote, either to approve or reject, on Tues., Jan. 17
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12:23 Next: Jack White, associate from Kirkland and Ellis, member of ACLU and NAACP, and a former Alito clerk.
White notes that his parents grew up as African Americans in the segregated south, and that he served in military.
Alito required thorough evauation of law, applied fairly and uniformly in each case, recognizing importance of every case to the particlar parties involved.
Alito had an abiding loyalty to a fair judicial process; he was non-ideological. There was a "conspicuous absence of ideological predilictions."
White left his job not knowing Alito's personal beliefs on the wide range of issues that came before the court, because it had no relevance to his decisionmaking.
Alito uniformly treated everyone -- clerks, staff, parties, lawyers --with dignity and respect. When White's parents came for a visit, Alito spent an hour with them even though oral arguments were coming up and the chambers had a lot of work to do. His parents came away thinking that their visit with him was the highlight of Alito's day.
12:16 Congresswoman Schultz, Democrat from Florida:
Bottome line: you are considering a person who argued in favor of overruling Roe and who voted as a judge to require women to notify husband before obtaining an abortion.
She thinks Alito would have ruled wrongly if Terri Schiavo case had gotten to the Supreme Court.
In case about strip search of ten-year-old girl, Alito reportedly asked her lawyer at oral argument why he kept bringing up that the case involved the strip search of a young girl. Does anyone want him on the Court deciding cases about their children?
The Senate has steered the course of the Supreme Court throughout history. It has a responsibility here to zelously guard Congress's legislative authority. Alito's views on a "unitary executive" threaten Congress.
12:10 Next is Congressman Charles Gonzales, Democrat from Texas.
He is representing the Hispanic Caucus. The group is disappointed that a qualified Hispanic was not nominated.
Caucus evaluated Alito's record as it relates to areas of their greatest concerns.
1. Alito would allow discrimination in jury selection based on language as pretext for national origin discrimination.
[He is talking so fast I can't keep up]
4. Concerned about Commerce Clause power to enact civil rights law.
5. Also concerned about his positions on standards for race and gender discrimination cases.
Judicial branch is the great equalizer, balancing out the powerful's power in the economy and politics.
He doesn't think Alito shares the basic values needed on the Court. He will recommend that the Caucus oppose the nomination.
I see that the opposition comes from people who do NOT know Alito, and also from those who are making money by inventing hysterical charges against him and President Bush.
Notice how none of the "anti-alito" witnesses really KNOW him...
ALL of the "Pro-Alito" witnesses personally know him and have worked closely with him.
Bazzarro ?
Quoting O'Connor
Alito is hostile to civil rights....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Do you ever see the show with the ditzy blond who travels all over the world killing different types of big game?..It's a hoot..
The next time I hear troubled, puzzled, or concerned, I'm going to burst out laughing and anyone around is going to look at me like I'm crazy.
I am going to have to catch the rerun.
I wish someone would ask her:
"Suppose, Ms. Michelman, that an adult citizen of our country were to find you annoying, obnoxious, and just to horrible to have around. Suppose further they decided that they had a right not to put up with you, and so they decided to terminate you.
"Would you please cite for us the relevant sections of the constitution which tell us why doing so would be unconstitutional?"
I'd like to know the whole case, wouldn't you?
```Chemerinsky```
what did he have to say?
How true.
I think it was a great thing that Teddy was able to directly address the Judge Alito in the middle, and not the two others he was hallucinating.
And his life-partner Jim Beam, and their close friend Chivas carrying the Grey Goose.
That's just what I was thinking. Everyone who actually knows him talks about what a great judge he is, even people who don't necessarily agree with him politically.
Ya know, even though, technically speaking, it's Florida.
Longuyland is the correct pronunciation.
Yes, this is little NY South with the good, the bad and the fugly.
Deborah Wasserman Schultz can act flaky as she wants being from a safe district. My dad worked with her on Peter Deutch's staff. She inherited his district
```Oh, let's have another round of "Nobody knows, the trouble I see..."```
Frankly, I'm sick of hearing about race AND abortion.
Or "Ms. Michelman, why did NARAL and NOW as organizations fail to support and provide comfort to Juanita Broadrick? While you yourself indicated words of empathy, why did these organizations who claim to devote themselves to helping women, abandon her?"
Nothing of coherence.
Miss M..he's now on a station in Detroit..can you pick that up?
you are right.
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