I was unclear in my last post, apologies. What I mean by “killing in committee” is the shenanigans of letting the nomination die by not moving it for a hearing or a vote. I’m not saying the Judiciary Committee shouldn’t be able to vote down a nominee and effectively kill a nomination fair and square that way. As Mark Levin has pointed out, the full Senate maintains an ability to correct a rare injustice by the Judiciary Committee by considering those nominations on the floor.