The Senate Judiciary Committee's website is now playing host to the full 172-pages of Supreme Court Nominee Sonia Sotomayor's vetting questionnaire. The Sunlight Foundation's Paul Blumenthal thinks that this is just the second time that a high court nominee's backgrounder has been posted online, and the White House is bragging that Sotomayor et al finished her document in a modern record of 9 days ( "It took Chief Justice Roberts 13 days, Justice Ginsburg 15 days and Justice Alito 30 days.")

But it's the posting of more than 200 other supporting documents -- everything from court reports to hearing transcripts to speech texts to grainy scans of print interviews with Newsday, the San Juan Star, El Diario La Prensa, and dozens of other publications -- that is striking. The White House appears eager to flood the zone with all things Sotomayor. Doing so saves us all some of the trouble of LexisNexis-ing, and perhaps themselves a delay in the process.

Still, if they really wanted to streamline this thing, a suggestion: hyperlink those endless PDFs to the relevant parts in Sotomayor's questionnaire itself.