{"id":5330,"date":"2005-09-22T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T17:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=5330"},"modified":"2005-09-22T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T17:23:00","slug":"roberts-heads-to-the-senate-floor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/roberts-heads-to-the-senate-floor\/","title":{"rendered":"Roberts heads to the Senate floor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, John Roberts was <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=1149536\">approved<\/a> by the Senate Judiciary this afternoon. The only question was how many Dems would vote against him. The answer: five.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved John Roberts&#8217; nomination as the next Supreme Court chief justice, virtually assuring the conservative judge confirmation by the Senate next week. <\/p>\n<p>Three Democrats joined the committee&#8217;s 10 majority Republicans in a 13-5 vote to advance the nomination to the full Senate. <\/p>\n<p>Five Democrats Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California, Joseph Biden of Delaware, Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, Charles Schumer of New York and Dick Durbin of Illinois opposed Roberts.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For those keeping score at home, there are <a href=\"http:\/\/judiciary.senate.gov\/members.cfm\">eight<\/a> Dems on the committee. The three who voted for Roberts were Sens. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.), Herb Kohl (D-Wis.), and Russ Feingold (D-Wis.).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As expected, John Roberts was approved by the Senate Judiciary this afternoon. The only question was how many Dems would vote against him. The answer: five. The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved John Roberts&#8217; nomination as the next Supreme Court chief justice, virtually assuring the conservative judge confirmation by the Senate next week. Three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}