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Samuel Alito ~ Senate Judiciary Hearing [LIVE THREAD] (Day-5)
Senate Judiciary ^ | 1-12-06 | Senate Judiciary

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.


821 posted on 01/13/2006 9:30:42 AM PST by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot and a new member of Sam's Club)
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To: Mo1
Oh, let's have another round of "Nobody knows, the trouble I see..."

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.

822 posted on 01/13/2006 9:30:49 AM PST by Miss Marple (Lord, please look after Mozart Lover's son and keep him strong.)
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To: All

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 ?


823 posted on 01/13/2006 9:31:41 AM PST by Mayflower Sister (DEMOCRAT: THE PARTY OF COWARDS AND TRAITORS)
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To: rwa265

Quoting O'Connor

Alito is hostile to civil rights....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz


824 posted on 01/13/2006 9:31:43 AM PST by Jrabbit (Kaufman County, Texas)
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To: Mayflower Sister

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..


825 posted on 01/13/2006 9:31:46 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: rwa265

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.


826 posted on 01/13/2006 9:31:54 AM PST by ilovew ("We are living through a watershed moment in the story of freedom." GWB 12-14-05)
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To: Soul Seeker

I am going to have to catch the rerun.


827 posted on 01/13/2006 9:32:11 AM PST by Howlin
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To: kjam22

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?"


828 posted on 01/13/2006 9:32:21 AM PST by CharlesWayneCT
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To: Howlin
"Oh, listen, which is worse, strip searches or hiding drugs on your child??"

I'd like to know the whole case, wouldn't you?

829 posted on 01/13/2006 9:32:50 AM PST by the Deejay (THE LADY DEEJAY)
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To: BigSkyFreeper

```Chemerinsky```

what did he have to say?


830 posted on 01/13/2006 9:33:00 AM PST by Howlin
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To: Miss Marple

How true.


831 posted on 01/13/2006 9:33:12 AM PST by OKIEDOC (There's nothing like hearing someone say thank you for your help.)
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To: King David

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.


832 posted on 01/13/2006 9:33:22 AM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: King David
Newsflash: Kennedy is also planning on calling Jack Daniels.

And his life-partner Jim Beam, and their close friend Chivas carrying the Grey Goose.

833 posted on 01/13/2006 9:33:32 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Miss Marple

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.


834 posted on 01/13/2006 9:33:32 AM PST by carolinablonde (Proud member of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy)
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To: Do not dub me shapka broham
Isn't it great that you folks have the opportunity to elect and re-elect another Long Island congressman?

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

835 posted on 01/13/2006 9:33:33 AM PST by dennisw ("What one man can do another can do" - The Edge)
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To: Miss Marple

```Oh, let's have another round of "Nobody knows, the trouble I see..."```


Frankly, I'm sick of hearing about race AND abortion.


836 posted on 01/13/2006 9:34:08 AM PST by Howlin
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To: CharlesWayneCT

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?"


837 posted on 01/13/2006 9:34:26 AM PST by saveliberty (Proud to be Head Snowflake, Bushbot and a new member of Sam's Club)
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To: Howlin
what did he have to say?

Nothing of coherence.

838 posted on 01/13/2006 9:34:31 AM PST by BigSkyFreeper ("Tucker Carlson could reveal himself as a castrated, lesbian, rodeo clown ...wouldn't surprise me")
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To: Miss Marple

Miss M..he's now on a station in Detroit..can you pick that up?


839 posted on 01/13/2006 9:34:35 AM PST by ken5050 (Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to pass on her gene pool....any volunteers?)
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To: Howlin

you are right.


840 posted on 01/13/2006 9:34:42 AM PST by Txsleuth (Thank you to all that donated on the Freepathon...next time more monthlies!!)
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