Eric Lipton in the NYT:

FreedomWorks allowed a reporter rare access to the organization as Mr. Levey and his staff put their plan to stop Mr. Obama’s nominee into action from the organization’s bowling alley-shaped war room, a few blocks from Capitol Hill….

What complicates the effort for conservatives is that prominent activists like Mr. Levey have previously been complimentary of Judge Garland. Mr. Levey, for example, in an email to other conservatives in 2012, said that Mr. Obama should not consider nominating “anyone to the left of Merrick Garland” to the Supreme Court, implying that Judge Garland was acceptable, as opposed to the president’s more liberal previous nominees, such as Justice Sonia Sotomayor.

Mr. Levey, as he prepared for his series of television appearances, struggled to explain his previous remarks.

“They could nominate my mother, who I have said very good things about over the years,” he said. “But this close to the election, with the balance of the court on the line, the American people should get a chance to weigh in.”