Dem Disrespect
[Wendy Long 01/12 03:40 PM]
BENCH MEMOS
I'm sitting in the hearing room, in back of an impressive and historic panel of federal Circuit Court of Appeals judges who have served with Judge Alito.
Judge Becker is testifying that
Sam Alito is not an ideologue .... Have never seen him exhibit a bias ....
In civil rights and employment discrimination cases....
I think the public does not understand what happens when you become a judge ..... Sam has great respect for precedent ....
The only Democrat Senators who bothered to stay on the dais are Leahy and Feinstein. Almost all the Republicans are there. Most notably, Senator Chuck Schumer got up and left right before the judges began to speak. Not only do they not care about the Judges' testimony, apparently, they don't even care about the disrespect for these judges that the bench of empty seats on the Democrat side bespeaks.
"Leahy
[Wendy Long 01/12 06:20 PM]
Is getting his demagoguery all mixed up .... He just asked Mr. Liu a question about the “ten year-old boy who was shot in the back.”
No, no, Senator ... The “ten year-old” demagoguery goes with the girl and the fabled “strip search” in the drug dealer's house in Pennsylvania! This is the fleeing boy in Tennessee. Oh well, I'm sure you don't care.
Demagoguery cont.
[Wendy Long 01/12 06:13 PM]
Goodwin Liu, a former Ginsburg clerk, is now telling Senators (yes, Teddy K is here!) that a memo the young Sam Alito wrote in the Reagan Administration shows a dangerous proclivity to defer to the government in allowing the states to make their own policies as to when police use of deadly force against fleeing felons is permissible. “Liberty is not safe where police can shoot and kill an unarmed boy,” he says. Of course, Mr. Liu is conveniently ignoring that the memo Sam Alito wrote contained the same analysis that Justice O'Connor used in her opinion when the Supreme Court ruled on the case.
Coburn Question
[Wendy Long 01/12 05:27 PM]
He just asked Judges Barry and Lewis (female and black, respectively), if they had ever seen anything that would lead them to believe Judge Alito would be hostile to the rights of women or minoritied. Both emphatically said they would not even be in this hearing room if they had.
Only Senators Feinstein and Durbin are here for this testimony. Schumer did not even make the cameo that Kennedy made. A pity that Kennedy and Schumer had no interest in even pretending to respect the testimony based on factual, personal knowledge that these witnesses had to offer. They prefer wild innuendo and baseless character assassination. The judges' panel is over now.
Wonder if Kennedy and Schumer will come back to hear Larry Tribe and Kate Michaelman?
"Sexist"! "Elitist"!
[Kathryn Jean Lopez 01/12 05:03 PM]
Ted Kennedy
Judge Becker to Hatch
[Wendy Long 01/12 05:02 PM]
“I have never seen Judge Alito disregard precedent.”
Feinstein to Judges
[Wendy Long 01/12 05:01 PM]
Feinstein asked the Judges to tell her what Judge Alito “meant” by his testimony about how Roe is settled as a precedent of the Court. All declined her invitation to recast Judge Alito's testimony.
Judge Lewis
[Wendy Long 01/12 04:45 PM]
Assures the Republicans and Feinstein — and Durbin, who is now here — that if he thought Judge Alito had even a shred of hostility to civil rights, “I would not be here.”
Judge Aldisert notes he was the first Italian American appointed to the Circuit in 1968 and recalls the discrimination against Italian Americans in New England, New York, Pennsylvania .... Too bad Kennedy and Schumer do not have any interest in even showing up to listen to him.
Feinstein Still Listening
[Wendy Long 01/12 04:35 PM]
Former Third Circuit Judge Timothy Lewis (a black Clinton appointee who says he is appropriately on the “far left” of the panel of testfying judges, is “openly and unapologetically pro-choice”) just testified about Judge Alito's “intellectual honesty” — “I cannot recall one instance when Judge alito displayed anything remotely approaching an ideological bent.”
Judge Lewis says he is here to testify “out of my own sense of justice and fairness.”
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