has an obligation to answer tough questions from the committee about whether his views have changed and whether he would advance a particular ideological position that is contrary to decades of legal precedent.
We need to be careful here. This is a nominee who could shift the balance of the court, and thus the laws of the nation, for decades to come.
I hope he is not a Thomas. But the risk is too great to bear, ... The court's balance may for decades be tipped radically in one direction.