I think the dems are just blustering for their base. His confirmation is pretty locked down.
sadly tal, i'm going to agree with you again. asking for personal opinion is technically wrong, as is asking for potential rulings. but the problem is that they're having a hard time determining whether or not personal opinion will get in the way of good judging, which is the real question.
and statements to that effect from the person in question don't really help too much -- who's to know how accurate they are?
but i do think he's probably going to be confirmed. he seems to be sounding fairly reasonable so far. god knows rehnquist's past made him look pretty bad too, and he had even less experience.
i don't however agree with this statement:
I was bored to tears after 3 minutes of wathing the hearings.
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