{"id":1716,"date":"2005-07-21T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2005-07-21T08:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/07\/20\/what-awaits-us-during-the-roberts-confirmation-hearing\/"},"modified":"2005-07-21T01:00:55","modified_gmt":"2005-07-21T08:00:55","slug":"what-awaits-us-during-the-roberts-confirmation-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1716","title":{"rendered":"The Gossip on Roberts and the painful wait for the confirmation hearings"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since Tuesday night, gossip has been damn near monopolized with news of Bush’s Supreme Court nominee, John G. Roberts<\/a><\/strong>. Well_no_shit<\/strong>. All throughout the blogosphere and the major television media outlets, Roberts’ history and political philosophy has been dissected and even questioned as to whether it would spell the end of Roe<\/em> and women’s reproductive rights altogether. I’d say no more than forty-five minutes after Bush’s announcement on Tuesday, my email inbox was bombarded with ‘take action’ emails from NARAL Pro-Choice America<\/strong>, <\/a>the National Organization for Women<\/strong><\/a>, and Planned Parenthood<\/strong><\/a>. I answered all of them and signed all the petitions.<\/p>\n

And naturally when I received all of those alert emails, they included directions and times for all the emergency pro-choice rallies, but<\/strong> just about all of them took place in cities such as San Francisco, Washington DC, and New York City. Come on people, you know I live in Indianapolis–I had to include that info when I registered. Must you be so cruel to me?<\/p>\n

You can’t go to any political blog without seeing this story and then not read any commentary on the fate of Roe v. Wade<\/em>. Certainly not at Pandagon<\/strong><\/a> where Amanda has done an excellent job in keeping us privy to the latest in Roberts’ past anti-Roe<\/em> legal activity<\/a><\/strong>, the anti-choice ideologues who endorse him<\/strong>, <\/a> (scroll down a bit to see the links) and denouncing this “let Roe<\/em> go back to the States” nonsense<\/strong><\/a>. And there has been talk of his past anti-union legal activity<\/strong><\/a> as well. No doubt you’ve heard that the Democrats and Moderates aren’t all that worried about Roberts<\/a><\/strong> and are hesitant to say or even believe that this could lead to a showdown on Capitol Hill. The Senate Judiciary Committee will ‘likely begin confirmation hearings on Roberts after Labor Day’ according to the previous CNN link. And we all know the Republicans are walking on sunshine because at long last<\/em>, they have been given the prospect of finally<\/em> having someone who could truly tip the balance the other way when it comes to decisions concerning abortion-rights.<\/p>\n

But what will happen during those confirmation hearings? Will the committee go easy on him, be mildly critical about his history, or will they grill him? Will the Democrats listen to those of us who look to them to ensure and protect our civil rights and liberties and take a closer look at his record–especially concerning his anti-Roe<\/em> legal history? Could this lead to a Congressional stalemate, with the Democrats threatening to filibuster and bring business on the Hill to a halt, and then the Republicans countering with the Nuclear Option<\/em>? Could they just at least give us a good drama? And could the Democrats, for once, not cop-out on the issue of women’s reproductive rights, prove themselves to us as Amanda says here<\/strong>, <\/a>and remember Roe’s<\/em> importance to the millions of women who vote for them? Oh the suspense is killing me…..especially waiting to find out what will happen to Roe<\/em>. Kudos again to Amanda for her fine work on this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Since Tuesday night, gossip has been damn near monopolized with news of Bush’s Supreme Court nominee, John G. Roberts. Well_no_shit. All throughout the blogosphere and the major television media outlets, Roberts’ history and political philosophy has been dissected and even … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,102,27,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion-reproductive-rights","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-elections-and-politics","category-supreme-court-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}