From the Washington Post: [Sen Specter] said “there’s a good chance” that Alito will spend more time before the committee than did Roberts, who faced 2 1/2 days of questions. But he said his plan is to conduct the entire hearing — including senators’ opening statements and outside witnesses — in one week, allowing the full Senate to vote on whether to confirm Alito by the end of January. This is great. More time for every Democrat to embarrass themselves, though I look for Slow Joe Biden to out do his mangled baseball analogies and fractured logic big time as this time, folks will actually be...

From yesterday’s interview with Senator Jon Kyl: HH: Thirty seconds, Senator Kyl. Brett Kavanaugh. I gig you about him every time you come on. JK: I know, and in fact, excuse me for interrupting, but I raised him with Senator Specter last night when we met. I said look, there’s a bunch of other stuff we have to do, too, including getting a bunch of people confirmed for judgeships. And he said yes, we do need to do that. So yes, we need to do it. But we’re going into a holiday period here, so it’s not going to happen real soon. Brett Kavanuagh was originally nominated by President Bush to a seat on the United...

Yesterday I quoted extensively from Judge Bork’s introduction to “A Country I do Not Recognize: The Legal Assault on American Values,” a book which Judge Bork also edited. The very first chapter in the book is by Professor Lino Graglia, a great light among conservative ConLaw scholars, and the A. Dalton Cross Professor of Law at the University of Texas. I did not know what professor Graglia thought about the Miers nomination, so I interviewed him today. I will post the transcript here a little later. Be sure to check back. Especially if you are Orin Kerr. UPDATE: The transcript: HH: It’s a great honor now...

From my interview with Francisco, Tuesday: HH: Joined now on the Hugh Hewitt Show by a veteran of the White House Counsel’s office, Noel Francisco. He is presently of counsel to the firm of Jones Day, I believe, in Washington, D.C. Welcome, Noel. It’s good to have you on the program. NF: My pleasure. It’s good to be here. HH: Let’s get a little background down here. You graduated University of Chicago in economics, and then you got your J.D. from the University of Chicago as well, correct? NF: That’s right. HH: Associate counsel to the president for two years, 2001 to 2003. Deputy attorney general,...

From yesterday’s interview with NYU journalism professor Jay Rosen (complete transcript at Radioblogger): First, did the media do its job in warning people to get the hell out of there? JR: Well, yeah, except that a lot of people felt that they received false warnings before. It’s not really failing to warn. HH: Well, I don’t know. What about the semiotics of standing in the rain on the Gulf Coast, and then moving your car back a few yards as the waters get bigger. What’s the message that the mainstream media really sent to the people of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast ten days ago, Jay Rosen? JR: Well, I...

One of the exchanges the e-mailers like most from my interview with Los Angeles Times columnist and senior writer Tim Rutten: TR: Hey, you know what? There are millions upon millions of individual decisions that go into the production of a newspaper every day. It’s a miracle that more of them aren’t wrong. HH: Especially since everyone making them is a liberal. TR: No, particularly…No, because they’re all humans. For more media criticism, see Scott Johnson’s “The Media Quagmire” in today’s Daily...

Here is the transcript of my long interview with Tim Rutten of the Los Angeles Times, the paper’s media essayist and senior writer. We will play most of it on tomorrow’s program if the news from New Orleans doesn’t overwhelm everything else. After Rutten named a number of blogs he reads and they all turn out to be center-right, I ask Rutten if he reads any of the lefty blogs: HH: But any lefties? TR: Lefties. Um, no. HH: You just can’t stand the snarling? TR: There…no, they’re not as interesting, are they? That’s a teaser. There’s a lot of new media/old media exchanges in this...

Professor John Eastman is my colleague at Chapman University Law School, and a scholar on the American founding. On the program today we discussed the difficulties of 1787 and their parallels in the Iraq of 2005: HH: Joined by Professor John Eastman, my colleague at Chapman University Law School, and a PhD, in addition to being a J.D., and for that reason, my guest expert today on how we approach the Iraqi constitution debate. John, good to have you here. JE: Thanks, Hugh. HH: John, I was reading over, and George Allen and I were talking about this earlier today, the Iraqi draft constitution in the New York Times today. And...