Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee decided to boycott yesterday's confirmation hearing of Judge David Hamilton, complaining the process was moving too quickly. The move short-circuited potentially heated questions over Hamilton's Indiana decision over legislative prayer. The Democrats in the hearing did manage to solicit some conversation on the topic.
Republican Senators on the Judiciary Committee (with the exception of Richard Lugar who supports the nomination) decided to boycott yesterday's confirmation hearing of Judge David Hamilton, complaining the process was moving too quickly. The move short-circuited potentially heated questions over Hamilton's Indiana decision over legislative prayer. The Democrats in the hearing did manage to solicit some conversation on the topic.
Hamilton said standards on the issue of standing changed between the time he determined that the taxpayers could challenge the law and the time the appeals court said they could not.
"I certainly hope the decision is not interpreted at all as limiting anyone's free exercise of religion nor as favoring any one religion over the other," he told the Judiciary Committee.
