In my self-destructive urge to piss myself off, I generally check PowerLine once a day. I stumbled upon this post:
How low will the Senate Democrats sink? . . . [Fourth Circuit] Judge [Michael] Luttig's father was murdered, and liberals may be poised to argue that this fact would render him impermissibly biased in death penalty cases (but doesn't he hear such cases now as a U.S. Court of Appeals judge?) . . . Are the Senate Democrats dumb enough to make this argument against Luttig?
Now, upon reading it, a reasonable person would probably think "what the hell are the Senate Dems thinking?" I think we can all agree that because someone's family member has been victim of violent crime should not disqualify them from being appellate judges who deal with all sorts of criminal cases --- death penalties, long sentences, searches, etc. But -- shocker -- there is no truth at all to PowerLine's claim that Senate Democrats(or any Democrats) are even considering such an argument --- watching how the liars of PowerLine came up with this claim shows how the Right-Wing Noise Machine works. (FLIP)
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