The Thursday Morning Politics Roundup

The Beginning-of-the-End-of-the-Hangover Edition

• The Republicans are on the move: an analysis of the 2004 Hispanic vote. [Daily Kos]
• They're very, very sorry: a frighteningly wacky website for the new millennium.  [SorryEverybody.com, via Wonkette]
• Beldar takes on a blogging naysayer: There are "abundant recent examples of bloggers offering news analysis who themselves have 'PhD-style expertise' that professional journalists lack."  [BeldarBlog]
• Justice Alberto Gonzales: Why the Gonzales nomination for A.G. "decreases the likelihood he will ever be a Supreme Court Justice."  [Power Line]
• Hold that thought: Why the Gonzales nomination was meant to increase the likelihood that he'll be a Supreme Court Justice.  [Professor Bainbridge]

Comments

[Apian]

I am vehemently, actively opposed to the confirmation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General

Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) told the Associated Press that Gonzales’ confirmation hearing "may be the only remaining forum in which to examine more fully the steps that were taken to weaken U.S. policy on torture in the period that led to the prison scandals at Abu Ghraib and Afghanistan."

I have been all over the net for the last two weeks trying to find out some basic information about the Gonzales Confirmation hearings and the appointment process. I have been to high school teachers, history and law professors. I have even been reading about the confirmation hearings of Ashcroft. Can one of your informed readers please tell me:

1) Is there any limit to the questions the Senate Judiciary Committee can ask Gonzales?

2) Can they request documents?

3) Is there a time limit to each committee member?

4) Once it gets to the floor of the Senate, is there any limit on the time each Senator can take? Any limit on questions they can ask Gonzales? Can they request documents?

5) Is there anything that could delay or prolong these hearings?

6) Is filibuster allowed? Is it effective?

Once you've notified all the committee members, your Senator, (and everyone else's too), contributed to Veterans for Common Sense ad campaign, is there anything else one can do?

Thank you.