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.
Whitehouse now against activist litigation groups & the class-action plaintiffs bar finding a plaintiff to challenge something - well, except that he's only against that if it is for a conservative cause, then he's for it.
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.
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.
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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