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Subject: Misplaced Coverage
Mr. Lehrer, I can't believe with the incredibly debatable issue of whether our president has broken the law in regards to domestic spying that you are going to continue to focus on Judge Alito's cofirmation hearing. In addtion to the fact that the hearings are being covered live by your AM station, the Republicans have the votes to confirm him making the hearing almost moot.
Barring updates for some truly significant revelation from the hearings, please stop spending your valuable time picking apart every sentence he utters when you could be performing a so much more valuable service to our nation by hosting debates with learned guests from all sides of the issue on the legality of the president's actions.
-DH

A Spector of a Question
Regarding the question from Senator Spector re whether the Supreme Court's reasoning is superior to Congress' (referring to a reversal by the Court of a law passed by Congress becamse of its "method of reasoning"), it seems to me that since most of Congress' "reasoning" is based on temporal partisan politics and the Supreme Court is made of lifetime judges, supposedly not politicians, its reasoning *is* inherently superior to Congress. And since, as I think Senator Schumer said yesterday, the Court is our last resort, I think that we rely on their wisdom to reason deliberately and intellectually honestly.
-SS

Skip to my Dem's
brian,
thank you for skipping over republican questioning of samuel alito. i agree strongly that such questioning is highly unlikely to support the thesis that mr. alito is unfit to serve on the supreme court, so why bother with listening in on it? i just hope that you are flexible enough to be willing to cut in during republican questioning if at any point doing so might help further the thesis.
-JS

Give Sam a Chance!
Fair journalism? You choose NOT to air the less-aggressive questioning of Alito becuae the Republicans have been giving him a chance to actually speak on his own behalf, rather than just bloviate, attack him and give him no chance to respond (Biden, Kennedy, etc.)??
I am ardently pro-choice, but this Judge is fully qualified for the Supreme Court, and the attacks on him are absurd, baseless and peevish. You have now descended into one-sided partisan politics in your programming choices, which is very disappointing. I have always seen you as at least paying lip service to the "other" point of view.
-MO