Monday, January 09, 2006
This could get old fast.
Highlights of the Alito confirmation hearings, Day 1:
- ORRIN HATCH: ...We do not evaluate an umpire's performance based on which team won the game but on how that umpire applied the rules inning after inning. We do not hire umpires by showing them the roster for the upcoming season and demanding to know which teams they will favor before those teams even take the field...
CHARLES GRASSLEY: ...Those 54 opinions say a lot about Judge Alito and his approach to judicial function. Like Chief Justice Roberts, it appears that Judge Alito tries to act like an umpire, calling the balls and strikes, rather than advocating a particular outcome...
CHUCK SCHUMER: ...If the records showed that an umpire repeatedly called 95 percent of pitches strikes when one team's players were up and repeatedly called 95 percent of pitches balls when the other team's players were up, one would naturally ask whether the umpire was being impartial and fair...
SAMUEL ALITO: ...I attended the public schools. In my spare time, I played baseball and other sports with my friends...
The Bush Administration's
public statements on Iraq
