http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/hearings/ en-us Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:36:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418361/posts The top Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform committee called for an investigation into the botched terrorist attack on-board a plane to Detroit, saying that various counter terrorist agencies are “reverting to their pre 9/11 ways.” Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) said that recent events have “exposed a sobering reality that the very failures that made us vulnerable before 9/11 still threaten our homeland security today.” “There was a breakdown in communication that impacts numerous government entities and this committee should investigate and hold hearings immediately,” Issa said in a news release. Issa said he called Chairman Ed Towns... politico.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418361/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:36:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405024/posts WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2009 – The commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan today wrapped up a round of hearings on Capitol Hill regarding the new U.S. approach to Afghanistan and Pakistan. The themes Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal touched on in appearances before members of both chambers of Congress this week were consistent: he embraced the plan that sends 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan and sets a flexible date for beginning a withdrawal, and expressed measured optimism in its potential to reverse insurgents’ momentum. “The president's decision rapidly resources our strategy, recognizing that the next 18 months will... American Forces Press Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405024/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:56:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390010/posts Sen. Linsey Graham puts AG Holder's feet to the fire. From Hot Air. It needs no comment from me other than we have an Attorney General being put in a position to spin the case for a trial unnecessary and one that puts this nation in danger. AP at Hot Air writes: " The real worry in a district-court trial isn’t what’ll happen to archterrorists like Osama or KSM, whose perpetual detention is assured; the worry is that those trials will establish precedents that’ll be exploited by lesser jihadis at their own trials later on. KSM won’t be released because... http://www.radioviceonline.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390010/posts#comment Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:38:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2389335/posts Graham vs. Holder at the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings, Holder gets his a** handed to him (Video) hotairpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2389335/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:45:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389054/posts President Obama said in one of a series of TV interviews during his trip to Asia that those offended by the legal privileges given to Mohammed by virtue of getting a civilian trial rather than a military tribunal won't find it "offensive at all when he's convicted and when the death penalty is applied to him." Obama quickly added that he did not mean to suggest he was prejudging the outcome of Mohammed's trial. "I'm not going to be in that courtroom," he said. "That's the job of the prosecutors, the judge and the jury." http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2389054/posts#comment Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:14:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2356497/posts Senator Russ Feingold, a liberal Democrat from Wisconsin, in a bold and courageous display of bipartisanship, had some harsh words in regards to President Obama's excessive appointment of 'czars'. At a hearing on on "Examining the History and Legality of Executive Branch 'Czars'" scheduled by the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Constitution, Feingold's opening statement sounded like it came from a conservative member of the President's opposition, rather than a fellow liberal from his own party. THE FREEDOM POST http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2356497/posts#comment Wed, 7 Oct 2009 04:42:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2295510/posts Dear Sonia, I've heard a lot from you and about you in the past month--you're all over the news, kind of like Michael Jackson, only not as feminine. Here's 3 questions I want to ask: 1. I looked up where you live-not for stalking purposes, or any nefarious reason-just wanted to see if you walk it like you talk it, as they say. Just what I thought-your pad is in a very nice area of the West Village, only a few blocks away from the late great bar Chumley's. One of the apartments in your building (yours?) is currently on... Mac from Cleveland http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2295510/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:10:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295005/posts Thank you Mr. Chairman. I testify today not as a wise Latina woman, but as an American who believes that skin color and national origin should not determine who gets a job, promotion, or public contract, or who gets into college or receives a scholarship. My message today is straightforward, Mr. Chairman: Do not vote to confirm this nominee. I say this with some regret, because I believe Judge Sotomayor’s personal story is an inspiring one, which proves that this is truly a land of opportunity where circumstances of birth and class do not determine whether you can succeed. Unfortunately,... Center for Equal Opportunity http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295005/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 19:37:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294945/posts Sotomayor disqualified by cross examination 101 By Dave Weinbaum http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Perjury — in criminal law, willful false statement made under oath with respect to a material matter, either in a legal proceeding, as by a witness at a trial, or in matters in which an oath is authorized or required by law… The senate is about to confirm a judge to the most powerful position in the nation, arguably MORE powerful than the presidency, who can't keep a story straight. No, she wasn't witness to a crime, unless you consider her speeches an incitement to attack not-so-wise white men.... The Jewish World Review http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294945/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:28:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294790/posts As her week of Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings draw to an end, Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has received a bounce in the polls. Rasmussen Reports national telephone polling conducted Wednesday and Thursday night shows that 44% favor Sotomayor's confirmation while 37% are opposed. That’s a big bounce from yesterday when just 37% favored her confirmation. Tracking data has been reported all week on a two-day rolling average basis. Looking back on the individual nights of polling, Monday was a good night for Sotomayor following the opening day of the hearings. Polling on Tuesday was much less favorable for... Rasmussen Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294790/posts#comment Fri, 17 Jul 2009 15:47:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294299/posts CQ TODAY ONLINE NEWSJuly 16, 2009 – 5:42 p.m. Firefighters to Senatos: ‘We Were Devastated’ By Seth Stern, CQ Staff Two firefighters whose reverse discrimination claim was rejected by Sonia Sotomayor criticized her handling of the sensitive case on Thursday.“Americans have the right to go into our federal courts and have their cases judged based on the Constitution and our laws, not on politics and personal feelings,” said Frank Ricci, the lead plaintiff in the case, Ricci v. DeStefano, at Sotomayor’s Supreme Court confirmation hearing. Ricci was joined at the Senate Judiciary Committee witness table by Ben Vargas, both whom... CQPOLITICS http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2294299/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 22:12:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2294289/posts Here is video of New Haven, Connecticut firefighter Frank Ricci, of the Ricci Supreme Court Case, beginning his testimony today before the Senate Judiciary Committee in the confirmation hearing for Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Sotomayor ruled against Ricci in a lower court decision that was recently overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court. . . . . . (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2294289/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:59:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293935/posts Supreme Court nominee returns for a third and final day of questioning Thursday, having avoided saying much on a range of hot-button issues, including guns and abortion.As witnesses prepare to take the stand Thursday in Sonia Sotomayor's last day of confirmation hearings, the chairman of the Senate Juduciary Committee said their testimony will matter little. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., said Wednesday that he may not ask any questions of the witnesses present at the Supreme Court nominee's hearing. Among the witnesses requested by the committee to testify are New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Connecticut firefighters whom the federal... Fox News.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293935/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:43:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293936/posts I don't believe anyone else has started one, so here goes. cspan.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293936/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:43:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2293667/posts In Judge Sonia Sotomayor's show-trial hearings today, Senator Patrick Leahy made a big show of misquoting Sotomayor's oft-repeated racist comments about the superiority of the judgement of Latina women over white men. How does this guy have a job? Evil Conservative Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2293667/posts#comment Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:32:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293133/posts You can’t judge a judge by her cover. Despite the best efforts of Republicans to root out any sign that Sonia Sotomayor has emotions that color her views on the law, the Bronx Bomber kept a robotic mask in place. A wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not know that a gaggle of white Republican men afraid of extinction are out to trip her up. After all, these guys have never needed to speak inspirational words to others like them, as Sotomayor has done. They’ve had codes, handshakes and clubs to do that. The New York Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293133/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:03:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291734/posts LIVEBLOGGING PART I 12:38 p.m. - Leahy announces lunch break. Liveblogging will continue in a new post when the hearing resumes. 12:36 p.m. - Durbin is the second Sotomayor supporter to bring up Gonzales v. Carhart, the decision upholding the partial-birth abortion ban, attacking the Supreme Court for “disregarding a woman’s health.” (See AUL’s page on that case.) 12:34 p.m. - Durbin brings up the umpire analogy again, saying, as did other supporters of the nominee, that we don’t want an umpire. ( If there were a drinking game every time a Sotomayor supporter used that analogy, I’d be under... Americans United for Life Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2291734/posts#comment Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:56:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292297/posts Here is video from this morning of Sen. Jeff Sessions grilling Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor on the second day of her confirmation hearing. Sessions held nothing back, pointedly challenging Sotomayor on her "wise Latina" remark, as well as her ruling on a lower court in favor of the city of New Haven, Connecticut against white firefighters who were discriminated against in a test for promotions (Ricci Case). Sessions would not let Sotomayor off the hook, eventually getting her to admit that her "wise Latina" remark was "a bad word choice." . . . . (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292297/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:49:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292375/posts Here is video today of Sen. Orrin Hatch questioning Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her views of the 2nd Amendment right to "keep and bear arms." Sotomayor danced around the question, justifying some questionable rulings in her career as "based on precedent." It would seem from her past decisions and her words today that she does not hold that the right to "keep and bear arms" is a fundamental right. . . . . . (Watch Video) Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292375/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:32:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292582/posts Here is video today of Sen. Lindsey Graham asking Supreme Court nominee, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, if she has a "temperament problem." Graham cited evaluations posted by lawyers who have appeared before Sotomayor on the bench as a judge. Some of the comments posted described her as: "She's a terror on the bench." "Temperamental." "Abuses lawyers." "Lacks judicial temperament." "She can be a bit of a bully." Sotomayor defended herself as being a judge who "asked tough questions of lawyers." Graham said these evaluations "stand out like a sore thumb," when compared to evaluations of other judges. . . . (Watch... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292582/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:31:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292554/posts Here is video today of Sen. Lindsey Graham questioning Supreme Court nominee Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Graham confronted Sotomayor with her quote from numerous speeches in which she said she would hope that a "wise Latina woman would come to a better decision (as a judge) than an average white male." Graham worked the exchange to a high point where he pointedly told Sotomayor that if he, as a white male, had ever said anything even close to what she did, his career would be over. He asked her if she could understand that? She said that she could understand how... Freedom's Lighthouse http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292554/posts#comment Tue, 14 Jul 2009 21:46:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292763/posts Day one of the questioning part of the Judge Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearings almost made me feel dirty. Between the Judge backtracking on almost everything she had ever said, and the Democrats kissing up, by the end of the day of hearings I actually felt dirty, like I needed a shower. Probably the most dramatic part of the day's activities were the Judges answers to the "I would hope that a wise Latina woman, with the richness of her experiences, would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male." statement. Her back track explanation was so... The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2292763/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:11:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2293415/posts I could not approach being nearly as eloquent as Georgetown law professor Louis Michael Seidman in an on-line debate over at the Federalist Society.Believe me, this guy is as liberal as they come. He not only defended SS's statements about being empathetic and being a wise Latina but also the irrelevancy of not being able to find a single case in which partial-birth abortion was medically necessary.But at least the guy is calling this nomination procedure like he sees it. On July 14 he wrote:"...I was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor's testimony today. If she was not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme... Clearly Nebulous http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2293415/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:29:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292982/posts Day 3 ... Post updates and comments here.. And don't forget to visit www.stopsotomayor.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2292982/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:59:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293165/posts WASHINGTON – Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor declined repeatedly at Senate confirmation hearings Wednesday to disclose her views on abortion rights, and said President Barack Obama never asked her about the issue before he chose her for the bench. "I can't answer ... because I can't look at it in the abstract," she told Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., as he sought to draw her out with questions about hypothetical cases. Even if she knew more about the specifics of a case, she added, "I probably couldn't opine because I'm sure that situation might well arise before the court." AP on Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2293165/posts#comment Wed, 15 Jul 2009 15:41:20 GMT