My colleague from Illinois is absolutely right. In the middle of the night somewhere, a few hours ago, I pointed out that this evidence of different style of action didn't just depend on the history books because you can look a few hundred yards here from the Senate out at the Supreme Court, where Justice Kennedy sits and had gone through the process, just as the Senator had described.
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