No matter how badly senators want to know things, judicial nominees are limited in what they may discuss. That limitation is real, and it comes from the very nature of what judges do.

This vote should have been 100-0. But 78 senators applied the right standard in evaluating a judicial nominee - a nonpolitical standard - and that's a good sign.

I do know dumb-ass questions when I see dumb-ass questions.

Judges who take the law into their own hands, who make up constitutional 'rights' in order to strike down laws they oppose, undermine the people's right to have their values shape public policy and define the culture.

You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.

We're going to find out who did this and we're going after the bastards.