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DAY 2: Contents

The Hearing of Judge John G. Roberts

September 13, 2005

Contents.

_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Specter  |  Leahy  |  Hatch  |  Kennedy  |  Grassley  |  Biden  |  Kyl  

Kohl  |  DeWine  |  Feinstein  |  Sessions  |  Feingold

Graham  |  Schumer  |  Cornyn  |  Durbin

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Day 2 - Speakers & Witnesses

 

Specter

A Woman's Right To Choose & Roe vs. Wade

The Constitutions as a Living Thing

Gay Rights

 

Leahy  

Environmental Protection

Interpretation of Bill of Rights at Wartime?

Separation of Powers - Does Congress Have the Power to Stop War?

Internment Based on Nationality or Race

Franklin v. Gwinnett County Public Schools

 

Hatch  

Precedent

Pro Bono Work

Inexperience in Legislative Branch of Government

What is Your Job or Role as a Judge

Interpretation vs. Making Law

Did Casey Reaffirm Roe but Change its Framework?

Judicial Philosophy

 

Kennedy  

Brown v. Board of Education - Segregation

Civil Rights, Discrimination, & Voting Rights

 

Grassley  

The Originalist Approach

The Role of a Judge in a Democratic Society

Voting Rights Act

Precedence and its Value

Court Created Solutions

Should the Courts Take Lead in Creating a More Just Society

Personal Values & Beliefs in Constitutional Interpretation

Generalities & Resolving Contradictions in Law

 

Biden  

Title IX - Gender Discrimination

Right of Privacy in the Liberty clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?

Moore v. East Cleveland

Violence Against Women

Gender Discrimination

 

Kyl  

As Applied

Foreign Law

What Did You Learn from Judges Friendly & Rehnquist

Proposed Intervention (Canterino v. Wilson)

Moore v. Cleveland - Additional Information

Arguing Multiple Cases in one Day

Representation of a Death Row Inmate

 

Kohl  

Roe v. Wade

Positions Taken as a Young Lawyer That You Would Not Take Today?

Introduction of Bills that Strip Supreme Court Jurisdiction

Judicial Term Limits

Availability of Legal Services

Hurricane Katrina & Equal Opportunity

Was A Woman Needed to Fill This Post?

Support or Disavow Writings & Opinions from 80's & 90's

The Judge and Umpire Analogy Questioned

 

DeWine

Appointing FISA Court Members

Congressional Power

First Amendment - Freedom of Speech

Internet & Pornography

 

Feinstein  

Right To Privacy - The Beginning and Ending of Life

Equal Rights for Women

Canerino v. Wilson - Discrimination in Prisons

Church and State

Stare Decisis

Interpreting Congressional Authority to Enact Laws Under the Commerce

 

Sessions  

How the Court System Works and What an Appellate Judge Does

Roe v. Wade and Stare Decisis

Clarifying Prior Issues

Recognition of Judge Roberts Capabilities

 

Feingold

Wartime Decisions: Korematsu v. the United States

Voting Rights

42 U.S.C. 1983 - Sueing if Deprived of Constitutional or Federal Statutes

September 11 & the Protection of Individual Rights & Civil Liberties

Support for Televising Court's Public Proceedings.

 

Graham  

What Would You Like History to Say About You?

Righting Wrongs

Voting Rights Act

Conservative

Personal Views - The Legacy & Influence of Justice Rehnquist

A Strict Constructionist & the Reagan Era

Personal Feelings on the Nominating Process

Long-Term Effects on Quality of Candidates for the Supreme Court

Holding the Clients They Represent Against the Lawyer.

Rule of Law: Concerns and Threats

 

Schumer

Civil Rights

Criticism of Federal Judiciary

Commerce Clause

Right to Privacy

 

Cornyn

Preferred Mode of Judicial Reasoning.

Willingness to Answer Questions

Commerce Clause

Do You Start With The Results You Want To Reach?

Stare Decisis

 

Durbin  

Reagan Administration and Discrimination

Separation of Church & State, Establishment Clause & The Lemon

Executive Power

The Eighth Amendment and the Death Penalty

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