Blogs for Bush is live-blogging the John Roberts hearings and even has some transcripts of the questioning. Don't waste your time with Kennedy's transcript. That guy blathers on for 5 minutes at a time, making numerous incredible assertions, hardly asking any questions and then interrupting Roberts when he answers. At one point, after a long diatribe, he looked up from his speech and says to Roberts, "Your comments on that." Roberts has this mystified look on his face like he's thinking, "Where there a question in there?" and then begins to say something and is quickly interrupted as Kennedy continues.
The transcript of Specter's questioning is mainly focused on abortion and stare decisis.
Confirm Them says a leading conservative prolife lawyer was "thrilled" with how Roberts responded.
The New York Times also has a transcript.
UPDATE:
Senator Kyl just asked for Roberts' opinion on using international law. Roberts did a good job of showing how using international law as precedent allows judges to place their personal opinions in rulings since international law is so varied.
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