Senate Democrats Wednesday held a mock hearing to bolster their case that the GOP should take up President Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court, one that Republicans dismissed as a “pretend” hearing, and one that even many Democrats skipped.

It’s been more than three months since the death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and the GOP’s pledge to wait until 2017 to vote on a nominee to replace him. Democrats have been unrelenting in their quest to pressure Republicans to change course, or at least extract a political price if they don’t hold a hearing and vote on Merrick Garland.