Ethics

The Right's Glaring Hypocrisy on Judicial Filibusters

By Ed Brayton

Sen. Jon Kyl is not alone in displaying rank hypocrisy on the subject of judicial filibusters. A conservative group called the Third Branch Conference, headed by Manuel Miranda, has written a letter to all 40 Republican Senators demanding that they filibuster the Sotomayor nomination. Oh, they try and make a distinction between what they call a "Democratic filibuster" and a "traditional filibuster" but we'll see how little that means in a moment. Here's their fanciful rationalization:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on June 03, 2009 (boomark / email).