if you look around and look at the colleagues, the democratic colleagues on the committee, who said they were noes. in fact, some of them, booker and kamala harris were noes in an hour of the nominee being named. what is the point? that becomes the question if the questioning doesn t give them any more discernment on the decision? the point here is kavanaugh is up for a lifetime appointment to the supreme court. whoever succeeds justice kennedy will have a role in making historic decisions that will have an impact on a whole range of understood fen mall rights and issues fundamental rights and issues over decades. there are a dozen member of the senate republican and democrat who haven t yet decided or made public what they intend to do. that is the point of a con mirmation point of a confirmation hearing.