If it’s really Judge Alito’s position that any promise on his part, made at a confirmation hearing, to do something that the law wouldn’t otherwise require, is excessive and therefore void, I think he may have a really serious problem.
Well, that’s not surprising; you’d expect me to think that Alito had a problem, just as you’d expect it of Atrios and John Aravosis.
But when Professor Bainbridge thinks Alito might have a problem, having heard the official GOP talking-points phone call on the topic, Alito really might have a problem.