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>> supposedly durbin is looking on the for the confirmation of judges, they just passed the 200 mark, but even apart from politics, one thing we can say, in the absence of any teeth, when we are just ad hoc, when the political theater has gotten to a pointy justice alito has made a representation and really it might be wrong. it might be false, it's all the more important in the absence of any kind of formal guidelines at that point to follow through. i cannot see the argument against at least a hearing. i can barely construe his letter, giving every indulgence to it not being untruthful, but ...