for the district of columbia appeals court, second in importance only to the u.s. supreme court. rather, the objections to estrada were political and procedural. his confirmation, they agreed, would set a precedent that appellate nominees need not answer detailed questions and make it hard to stop him as possible future supreme court nominee. senators talked about slowing down a bush assembly line of conservative nominees and cited support from an energized democratic base. well, let's take a look at some of these internal memos that were publicly released. you heard patrick leahy, the senator from vermont going on and on a few weeks ago. they stole our memos. they stole our memos. what happened was the democrats and the republicans put these -- their data on the same site, and the republicans saw it. now, i didn't steal anything but these are in men in black, my first book as they were