Hatch urges John Roberts NOT to answer questions

[AnnInLa]

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by kos
Thu Jul 21st, 2005 at 15:58:46 PDT

Orrin Hatch compares Roberts to, um, Jesus, and urges the nominee to refuse answers to any questions. No link to the transcript from Hatch's Fox News Channel appearance yesterday:

I think senators can ask any questions they want. I've said, no matter how dumb the question may be. But the, the nominee doesn't have to answer them and he should not, under the canons of judicial ethics, he should not answer questions on any issue that possibly would come before the Supreme Court. Otherwise, he would be foretelling how he would vote on those issues and then they would hold that against him. So it's a little bit like Biblical Pharisees, you know, who basically are always trying to undermine Jesus Christ, you know, it goes on the same way. If they can catch him in something, they can then criticize -- and the outside groups will go berserk. And that's that what drives the People for the American Way, the Alliance for Justice, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. They're against any Republican. We knew that just no matter who it was -- it could be the greatest person in the world, and Roberts is, is that -- they would come out against him.

Republicans are really afraid of airing Roberts' views on the issues. Really, really, afraid.


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[Fenris]

1. Yeah, they're gonna run with this one

Any question re: Robert's stance on abortion will be played up by the nationalist blowhards as an assault on his Catholicism and his religion. I heard Santorum spew the same shit on Limbaugh's show today.

[HockeyMom]

2. So if Kennedy or Kerry

questions Roberts on his abortion stance, they too will be accused of Catholic bashing? I seem to recall a very long time ago, when I was a child, watching a presidential debate on TV with my parents where one candidate said, "If elected, I will be running the country, not the Pope."

Somebody should send the text of that debate to Senator Santorum.

[Fenris]

4. They're already "bad" Catholics for harboring thoughts independent of

The Vatican. Santorum and the rest of the "true" Catholics will rake them over the coals.

[CatholicEdHead]

3. No suprise there

the religion card gets played way too often.

[Algorem]

5. Hatch never answers when people ask about his leather panties and

his alter ego "Purty Mouth",so this should be no surprise.