One thing that hurt was not giving up Estrada's memos
when he was with the Solicitor Generals
office. The office had given up info for other
nominees but for some reason not under Bush.

Estrada was not the only one torpedoed by the Democrats
in that round of bipartisan fighting. That was very nasty.

imo the Democrats could come back and use the nuclear
option that the Republicans threatened back then (if the
liberals were to have carried out yet another filibuster).

Or filibustering could give Obama a chance to find an ultra-liberal
nominee to come back with. And then come back with
P.Soto later when Ginsberg retires.

oops... that was for scuds.
sorry.