and legal correspondent for a magazine. hi there, rachel. so i have been feeling like judge gorsuch nomination from the democratic point of view is mostly going to be a fight about whether or not the republicans should get away with never giving a hearing to merrick garland and holding that st open for so long, whether it s ok for donald trump to appoint anybody to the seat. are things changing now with these kinds of questions being raised by the wall street journal that there may be a more substantive type of fight over judge gorsuch himself? rachel, i m going to do something i never do, which is push back a little on this and i think that, you know, this question of was he in this group or that group and, question of w group or that group, was this misrepresented? these are the kinds of questions that seem to me hung up the alito confirmation hearing. we had a big fight about whether he was a member of a group at prin princeton. i feel as though the first thing you said is s