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Old 01-09-2006   #1 (permalink)
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Alito Confirmation Hearings
This past Sunday I watched all the political programs, Meet The Press, Face The Nation and such. Today I watched the opening remarks of the Samuel Alito Supreme Court Associate Justice Confirmation Hearing on CSPAN. According to the Republicans Alito is the best qualified person nominated for the Supreme Court in the last 70 years. The Democrats thinks he is qualified but they don't want to confirm him. The number one concern of the Democrats, from what I heard on the news shows yesterday and the hearings today, is will Alito continue to allow women to kill their unborn babies. The Democrats want Alito to say that he will not vote to overturn Roe v Wade. Of course if he does then he's blown his vote if the issue came befor the court, if he is confirmed. The next big concern brought out today concerns the domestic spying by Bush which was brought out last month. How much power does the President have with the authority Congress gave Bush after 9/11? The Democrats are mad as heck that Bush has the opportunity to appoint to Supreme Court justices. They don't want Alito to use the "Ginsburg Rule". During her confirmation hearings she kept stating she would not answer questions concerning subjects that could come in front of the court. Even though she had been an ACLU lawyer she was confirmed with over 90 yes votes in the Senate. Some Democrats have already stated they will vote no if Alito refused to answer their questions. Alito cannot be no more right of center than Ginsburg is left of center. It is going to be an interesting confirmation. My prediction is he will be confirmed, mostly down party lines.
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Re: Alito Confirmation Hearings
I agree that he will be confirmed and I further agree that it will be down party lines. The confirmation process has become a media farce. While I support the nomination, no "regular" American will know anything other than what is fed to them. It was absolutely sickening to watch Teddy Kennedy on the news up on his high horse. Riding on any coat-tails',
Teddy boy? Uggghhh...what I would not give for an original thought.
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Good post, Sarge. Judge Alito should be confirmed!
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I agree that he will be confirmed and I further agree that it will be down party lines. The confirmation process has become a media farce. While I support the nomination, no "regular" American will know anything other than what is fed to them. It was absolutely sickening to watch Teddy Kennedy on the news up on his high horse. Riding on any coat-tails',
Teddy boy? Uggghhh...what I would not give for an original thought.
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I just wish that BOTH parties would conduct confirmation hearings they way that they were intended to be conducted. The purpose of the confirmation hearings is to "confirm" the good character of the nominee and his/her adherence to American legal standards, NOT to question them about abortion, eminent domain, or any other specific topic.

Also, it seems so silly to me to spend hours questioning the man on abortion and other hot button issues when the Court rarely if ever faces those issues in cases brought before it. The majority of the time, the court is addressing issues of contract law, tort law, tax law, bankruptcy law, etc. -- certainly not as "sexy" of issues as those hot button ones, but issues that have to be addressed, none the less.

...but, I guess it would be too much to ask our elected officials to act like sensible people, wouldn't it?
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...but, I guess it would be too much to ask our elected officials to act like sensible people, wouldn't it?


You have to remember who you are talking about here demopolite, ie Kennedy for example. I don't believe sensible is in his vocabulary.
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Re: Alito Confirmation Hearings
Fun blog on the confirmation hearings at NRO's The Corner - it's conservative, but gives an interesting perspective...wait...I'm the only liberal on D-Live...never mind, you GOPers will enjoy the HECK out of The Corner!
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It's Showtime Folks!! The cameras are turning and they have to look tough to bring in the campaign funds.
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Re: Alito Confirmation Hearings
From NRO

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The mad geniuses over at the best-named blog on the Web, Nihilist in Golf Pants, ... have done a word count on every Senator and his exchanges with Judge Alito. A sample of their "Hearing Verbosity Index":

Senator Cornyn 79.8% (Cornyn 5594 words, Alito 1419)
Senator Schumer 73.8% (Schumer 6025, Alito 2139)
Senator Biden 73.2% (Biden 5635, Alito 2062)
Senator Graham 71.3% (Graham 5019, Alito 2021)
Senator Brownback 68.1% (Brownback 3319, Alito 1552)
Senator Kennedy 66.4% (Kennedy 5422, Alito 2746)
http://nihlist.blogspot.com/2006/01/...x-through.html
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Just a bunch of hot air, I am just waiting for Washington to lift off like a balloon one day....And CNN was just talking about the uselessness of the confirmation hearing. I tend to agree!!!!

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