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With a little help from Google News and How Appealing, I've gathered a few of the latest confirmation-related links....

People are already registering various domain names in anticipation of a Supreme Court nomination, according to an article in Legal Times.

Paul Mirengoff writes in support of the Haynes nomination in the Weekly Standard.

Ed Whelan writes at Bench Memos here and here that the Kavanaugh nomination is on hold until the end of the year.

Opinion Journal has some interesting what-ifs:

On Friday, we noted that Senate Democrats might have been able to sink the nomination of Bill Pryor in 2003 had they allowed it to go to the floor [because there were only 51 Republican Senators back then]. Here's another tantalizing what-if. President Bush appointed Janice Rogers Brown to to the D.C. Circuit in July 2003, and the Democrats blocked a vote on Nov. 14 of that year. Arnold Schwarzenegger wasn't sworn in as California's governor until Nov. 17. Had the Democrats eschewed the filibuster and the Senate acted on the nomination more quickly, Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, might have been able to appoint Brown's successor on the California Supreme Court.

So, maybe the filibuster had some benefits for the GOP after all. Finally, for now, MSNBC has an article titled “Bush's SCOTUS Strategy‿ which doesn't say a whole heck of a lot, but here's the link in case you're desperate to read about this subject.