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Roberts Hearing Should Be Delayed

By Jeralyn, Section John Roberts
Posted on Sun Sep 04, 2005 at 09:09:16 AM EST
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I wrote on Friday that confirmation hearings for Judge Roberts should be delayed in the wake of the Katrina disaster. Armando at Daily Kos shared this view.

It seems some Democrats are coming round to this way of thinking. TV news this morning is reporting that Sen. Chris Dodd says Bush should ask O'Connor to stay on. Republicans, including Sen. John Cornyn, apparently want to press on with the hearings.

My prediction: They will be delayed. No one's heart is in them.

Update: Word reaches me that Kennedy and Schumer are calling for a delay out of respect.

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    Re: Roberts Hearing Should Be Delayed (none / 0) (#1)
    by DonS on Sat Dec 17, 2005 at 01:03:12 PM EST
    "no one's heart is in them" [the hearings]. I take the meaning here, and I have given a bit of thought to it myself. Without attaching undue animus to it, perhaps this is exactly the time that a seriousness and gravity can be brought to hearings that was absent last week. Now if the Senators lack the courage or the stomach to rise to the occasion that is a different thing. These people are elected and paid to be extraordinary individuals, with public service their supposed brief. When, if not now, better to show the steel necessary to right our tottering republic?