Posted on 01/11/2006 5:01:17 AM PST by OXENinFLA
Day 3: Questioning Continues
This morning, Round 1 concludes with Senators on the Judiciary Cmte. who did not question nominee Alito yesterday. During Round 2, questioning is limited to 20 minutes for each of the eight- een senators. Chairman Arlen Specter (R-PA) leads off, followed by the others, alternating by party in order of seniority.
WEDS., 9:30AM ET, C-SPAN
Specter in New Trouble (Breaks Promise to Caucus; Hires Judicial Nominee Filibuster Figure)
The American Prowler ^ | 1/21/2005 | The Prowler
Posted on 01/21/2005 12:59:40 AM EST by nickcarraway
Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen Specter went back on his word to Republican caucus members and conservative groups alike when he recently hired Hannibal G. Williams II Kemerer, who until recently was the NAACP's assistant general counsel. Specter hired Kemerer against the wishes of his senior Judiciary Committee staff. "We warned him this was going to cause trouble, but Specter said it was his committee, we are his staff, and he's going to do what he believes is right," says a Judiciary Committee staffer.
Kemerer was a protégé of Elaine Jones, who three years ago, as head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, lobbied Sen. Ted Kennedy to delay confirmation of many of President Bush's judicial nominees to a federal circuit court where her group had pending litigation. When Jones and Kennedy's deal was revealed, she was forced to resign.
Specter hired Kemerer to deal specifically with the nominations and vetting of federal judicial nominees, a position many conservatives were led to believe by Specter would go, at the very least, to a Republican, and most likely to a conservative.
Specter, according to a longtime conservative judicial observer, made those promises during a meeting in late 2004 at which Specter was pleading for an opportunity to serve as Judiciary Chairman
As compared to the Democrats, who can barely read the questions typed out for them by their staffs...
No one has asked, but why is Fat Teddy entitled to go to the gym while these hearings are being conducted?
Sure have. He only just TODAY has jotted down a few things, when being asked multi-faceted questions.
The intelligence is stunning to me.
LOL.
This whole thing is such a world class farce. Unfortunately, I can't stop watching.
Because they have to air out the nasty smell while he's gone.
Rush might mean Harvard itself, back in the days Chapaquidick Fats was there.
That a commentator on FNC would openly say she was disappointed that the dems had NO follow up questions for Alito, really frosted me.
Hey, muck doesn't rhyme with...
Oh.
Never mind. ;-)
He did. He repeated that he had never seen the letter until the lunch break.
Oh, I remember that happening now. Good find! And one handed :-(
Yeah--but the Senator still insists he doesn't like the statistics. Like anyone is going to care about that!
Goes to show that one little moment of backbone, doesn't make up for what he is really all about.
I don't know that there's an official rule that does allow him to do that. During break, he can do as he likes. He isn't used to all of this "working"
just wondering...
Watching Kennedy, Leahy, Biden, Kohl, etc. is hard to turn off. It is sort of watching a car wreck - you know you shouldn't but you just can't help it.
"This whole thing is such a world class farce. Unfortunately, I can't stop watching."
We all enjoy a good comedy now and then.
~groan~
LOL!
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