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Saturday, September 03, 2005

Law - Watch Roberts hearings via C-Span next week or listen to them at your leisure via podcasts

Watch the John Roberts hearings via C-Span next week or listen to them at your leisure via podcasts. Podcasts will be my choice.

Past Hearings. C-Span today and tomorrow is broadcasting via C-Span 3 (accessible only online, I believe) the earlier confirmation hearings. I didn't see Judge Bork's at the time (1987), so I have been watching it with interest this afternoon. I am planning to watch then-Judge, now Justice, Thomas' hearings from 1991, first and second rounds. I don't see Sanda Day O'Connor listed - I'd like to see it.* Many I will pass on, such as Justice Kennedy's. Check the C-Span schedule here -- right now the Thomas hearings begin at 11:45 AM (EST) tomorrow, but C-Span schedules are often off, or changed.

Upcoming Hearings via C-Span. From C-Span:

Roberts Hearings to Begin Tuesday. The Senate Judiciary Cmte. begins Supreme Court confirmation hearings for John Roberts on Tuesday. They will air for four days LIVE on C-SPAN3 & C-SPAN Radio, and will stream LIVE on C-SPAN.org.

Roberts Highlights: C-SPAN2 at 9pm ET. These confirmation hearings for will also reair during primetime each day they are held. They will start at 9pm ET on C-SPAN2, and as always, will be concurrently available through streaming video available on this website.

Here is the Senate schedule for Tuesday and Wednesday.

Hearings via Podcasts. A Catholic organization, Fidelis, will be making podcasts of the Roberts hearings available. These are essentially MP3 files you can listen to on your computer or iPod, or save to CD-ROM. See this announcement.

For automatic downloading via iTunes, you can subscribe to the Fidelis Podcast Network here. However, I don't know if this gets you just the Roberts hearings, or if you also receive other Fidelis broadcasts until you unsubscribe.
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*Justice O'Connor's confirmation may have been pre-C-Span. I believe it was 24 years ago. [Yes, 1981. Here is the list, Scalia followed O'Connor in 1986. His hearing, along with Rehnquist's confirmation hearing to be Chief Justice, are the earliest of the C-Span confirmation hearing broadcasts.]

Posted by Marcia Oddi on September 3, 2005 07:04 PM
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