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The Senate debate on Eric Holder's nomination is on CSPAN2 right now. Tom Coburn is on the floor now pretending that Holder is going to bring back the Fairness Doctrine and take away your guns. But Holder's nomination is bound to pass, with large margins, when they vote this evening. So it'll be interesting to see how Holder implements these highly parsed views, written in response to questions from Russ Feingold, courtesyhttps://www.emptywheel.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/Web-backup.jpg448448