Whitehouse, who claimed yesterday to be against special-interest money in politics, now starting in against the Janus decision that restricted unions' special-interest right to extract money for politics from their members without their consent.
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Whitehouse now says that litigants should demand rulings in their favor by lower courts even when precedent precludes that. He should probably read about how Thurgood Marshall & Ruth Bader Ginsburg got cases to the appeals courts.
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Whitehouse is now denouncing Ginsburg for using a dissent to tell Congress to pass the Ledbetter Act. Just kidding, he's against Justices urging or signaling things in opinions only when they are conservative causes.
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What irks me about Sheldon Whitehouse is that he so very obviously believes not a word of what he says. Not one of the things he objects to bothers him when done on behalf of causes he supports.
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So are we right to infer that you are only against it if it is a liberal cause?
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