I thought it might be interesting to watch some of the Alito confirmation hearing on CSPAN today, but right now the only thing happening is that each senator on the judiciary committee gets 10 minutes for an opening speech. To summarize:
Republican speech: Judge Alito shows exemplary qualifications and we have no right to ask him how he might vote on issues that could come up before the supreme court.
Democratic speech: Judge Alito seems like a decent guy, but he has some troubling memos and opinions and we want to make sure that he will be an independent justice, not beholden to the philosophies of the president who nominated him. Oh, and don't forget about Harriet Meirs, who got shot down by the extreme right. Can't everyone see the President is beholden to the extreme right???
I think there are 15 members on the committee... this is going to take a while.
UPDATE: Apparently there are 18 members... oy.
Comments
Just wait till they get to asking actual questions and he gets to refuse to answer all of them. Oh, that's good stuff, it's like porn for a Con law lover.
Posted by: Ben | January 9, 2006 02:47 PM