1. Good riddance Kozinski 2. Disturbing but par for the course that Democrats didn't impeach his 9th Circuit colleague Jay Bybee, co-author of torture memos, when they had the chance (Why does Professor Yoo get all the blame?)https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/02/torture-memo-author-now-a-federal-judge-still-justifying-torture/272998/?utm_source=twb …
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Replying to @ChaseMadar
Further on #2 -- for that matter, why did the Dems focus on Gorsuch's "frozen trucker" opinion, rather than all the material released detailing his defense of torture, including a smear campaign against law firms representing Gitmo detainees? His confirmation was a cakewalk.
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Replying to @ryan_p_alford
possible answesr: poll data many Dem voters are against torture "except for special circs," meaning they are pro-torture. Dem electeds don't see it as a winning issue? Or they're soft on torture themselves?
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Replying to @ChaseMadar
Concur on both, unfortunately. But the only way to turn the broad public against torture is by exposing its myths and horrors. Until then, soft support is a recipe for losing to R's who promote it --bad law and bad politics. The wages of political fecklessness are irrelevance.
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