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Samuel Alito ~ Senate Judiciary Hearing [LIVE THREAD] (Day-3)
Senate Judiciary ^ | 1-11-06 | Senate Judiciary

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


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: 109th; alito; alitoakbar; alitohearings; alitorulz; babykilling; bidenisamoron; bush2rats0; clangingcymbals; demsareduds; emptybarrels; feingoldstinks; feinsteinreeks; judicialnominees; judiciary; kennedysucks; penumbra; scotus; senate; super; superduper; superduperduper; welldecided
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To: southernerwithanattitude
WOOhoo, I finally caught up with this thread!

as the gavel goes down to close the session. Sounds like my normal timing! see you tomorrow

3,361 posted on 01/11/2006 3:39:41 PM PST by DollyCali (Don't tell GOD how big your storm is -- Tell the storm how B-I-G your God is!)
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To: Cboldt

Remember the money in the freezer? The special trip to his house to collect boxes of private items when the National Guard got stuck in the mud and they had to flag down a helicopter to rescue him???


3,362 posted on 01/11/2006 3:39:45 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: flaglady47

DANG...what did I say???

I have said nothing against Mrs. Alito...

I did say, a while ago...that the DEMS will try to portray this as a staged event...but I KNOW it isn't!!!


3,363 posted on 01/11/2006 3:39:52 PM PST by Txsleuth (Become a $ - day Donor.----Less than a Starbuck's coffee!!)
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To: mware

Do you see schumer busting up in the middle of the photo op with leahy and Spector?


3,364 posted on 01/11/2006 3:39:59 PM PST by daybreakcoming (May God bless those who enter the valley of the shadow of death so that we may see the light of day.)
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To: Jrabbit
Brit Hume just showed the whole tape of Mrs. Alito's reaction...complete with Graham's statements right through to Graham's tearing up and his apology.
3,365 posted on 01/11/2006 3:40:15 PM PST by Right_in_Virginia
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To: maggief

hmmmm....is he telling us more than we want to know with that gesture??? ROFL


3,366 posted on 01/11/2006 3:40:15 PM PST by Jrabbit (Kaufman County, Texas)
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To: flaglady47
Durban was on right after the break.

He was very reserved in his comments and did not press Alito or badger him.

3,367 posted on 01/11/2006 3:40:21 PM PST by mware (The keeper of the I's once again.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn; All

Brit just had the clip on Special Report...powerful moment.

NOW the table is going to discuss this whole thing...


3,368 posted on 01/11/2006 3:40:23 PM PST by SE Mom (God Bless those who serve..)
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To: sageb1
BTW, I expect my smite button to be available for use first thing in the morning :)

Better wire up the backup. I suspect the smite button is going to wear out tommorow. :-)

3,369 posted on 01/11/2006 3:40:38 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Resistance is futile. We are the Freepers. You will be assimilated)
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To: conservativebabe

Cause the dems will go into private, late night, session to look for dirt for tomorrows final questions by Biden.


3,370 posted on 01/11/2006 3:40:41 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: maggief

Well Brit just showed it, albeit a shorter version, (she wiped her tears in the live version), and then left.

And I teared up again!


3,371 posted on 01/11/2006 3:40:58 PM PST by roses of sharon ("I would rather men ask why I have no statue, than why I have one". ) (Cato the Elder)
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To: CFC__VRWC

used to be a career booster -- before all the dem voters were moved out due to Katrina.


3,372 posted on 01/11/2006 3:41:21 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: Arizona Carolyn

Whoa! Some guy just called CSPAN and brought Mary Jo, saying Kennedy ought to be in prison, not in the Senate.


3,373 posted on 01/11/2006 3:41:47 PM PST by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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To: MNJohnnie

Spectre said Kennedy would have 10 minutes, Biden would have 10 minutes, and someone else, so I don't know if it's a shortened pound of flesh round or a complete show. Kennedy strode in. He limped out.


3,374 posted on 01/11/2006 3:41:54 PM PST by small voice in the wilderness (The Culture of Corruption hurts. But it's the dems. Corruption of Culture that destroys.)
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To: nutmeg

Tuned in to fox and caught the exchange. When Lindsey discussed the reams of letters of praise he received regarding Judge Alito and how has conducted himself throughout his career she completely lost it. She left just as he apologized to the Judge and his family having to sit through the dispicable line of questioning they've endured and he too got teary eyed. Definitely MUST SEE TV!


3,375 posted on 01/11/2006 3:42:04 PM PST by StarFan
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To: nutmeg
Excerpt from Bloomberg News:

Alito, a 1972 Princeton graduate, says he can't recall joining the group and that he may have supported it because it opposed the expulsion of military training on campus during the Vietnam War. He said he wasn't aware until recent weeks that two prominent alumni, former Senator Bill Bradley, a New Jersey Democrat, and Senate Republican Leader Bill Frist, had denounced the group.

If I had been involved actively in any way in the group, I'm sure that I would remember that," Alito testified.

Alito's wife, Martha, began to cry and left the hearing room as the issue came up again. She wiped a tear from one eye when South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham, a supporter of the nomination, was trying to debunk suggestions that her husband shared the group's view.

Are you really a closet bigot?" Graham said.

I am not any kind of bigot, I'm not," Alito replied. "No sir, you're not," Graham said. "You seem to be a decent, honorable man."

"Graham's statement brought out some long-held emotions about how he was being characterized," said former Indiana Senator Dan Coats, who was assisting the Bush administration on Alito's nomination.

"Her emotions just caught up with her after 2 1/2 days of hearing her husband's record mischaracterized," Coats said. Alito's wife returned to the hearing room after the committee's late afternoon break.

Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito shares a moment with his wife Martha after returning from a lunch break during his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Jan. 10, 2006 in Washington.


3,376 posted on 01/11/2006 3:42:34 PM PST by Wolfstar ("We must...all hang together or...we shall all hang separately." Benjamin Franklin)
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To: Fudd Fan

I am not a violent person

FF: Oh come now... you asked for a HAMMER! lol




I want a lightsaber. Pretty colors, soothing humming noise once it's been turned on, and when it cuts through flesh, the wound instantly cauterizes, so there is no dripping of blood. Perfect for the environmental wackos. Plus, the power cell lasts for a long time, so no need to buy tons of batteries (again, kowtowing to the envirowackos).


3,377 posted on 01/11/2006 3:42:42 PM PST by Christian4Bush (Over THREE THOUSAND PEOPLE lost their 'civil liberties' on September 11, 2001.)
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To: sageb1

Yeah just in time for a recess! I can't wait for the talking heads to start digging into this disgusting act by the dimocrats. But you know, I wish we had done this kind of stuff to Ginsberg,Kennedy,Souter. If we had maybe this one would not have been as important.


3,378 posted on 01/11/2006 3:43:15 PM PST by southernerwithanattitude (new and improved redneck)
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To: milagro; Arizona Carolyn
To: Arizona Carolyn Source?

Read the link on this thread.

Re: Abramoff-linked probe focuses on 5 lawmakers

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1555850/post

3,379 posted on 01/11/2006 3:43:22 PM PST by MNJohnnie (Resistance is futile. We are the Freepers. You will be assimilated)
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To: small voice in the wilderness
Schumer is out looking for the worst cigarette made. 'Cause he got the worst sc*ewing of his life today.

I'd love to believe he was embarrassed but that would assume the man has a conscience.

3,380 posted on 01/11/2006 3:43:22 PM PST by StarFan
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