The reason you don’t give them a hearing is because we have repubs that will bow down to Obama - stab us in the back. Only the leaders can save us. We must not even have committee hearing. Today I heard 11 members of the Judicial Committee under Grassley signed agreement not to ok appt.
The problem is once you begin hearings they can spin out of your control.
The two best examples I can think of are Clarence Thomas and Ollie North. In both cases the Democrats thought they had them dead to rights. In both cases the subject’s performance turned the tables on them.
That could work both ways.