Robert George
Robert George
audience hearings hit home interested looking main seems stands upright
The main audience is the public, and what it's fundamentally interested in is looking at a nominee, sizing him up. And that's what hearings do: see if he stands up under fire, see if seems like a decent, intelligent, upright person. He seems to have hit a home run.
activist base behaved explains liberal needed side
They needed to show their base and activist organizations on the liberal side that they were true-blue, and that explains how they behaved as they did.
blow expect indicate justices liberal losers opinion reason themselves
The reason I would expect a concurrence from the liberal justices would be to kind of soften the blow for the losers to indicate ... that they themselves interpreted the opinion narrowly.