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CFJ Demands Affirmative Action for Southern White Males 11/05/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Back when President Bush was in office, one of the standard right-wing tactics for putting pressure on Democratic Senators to confirm his nominees was to accuse them of …

A Remembrance of CFJ Ads Past 07/15/2009 by Kyle Mantyla In honor of the Committee for Justice's most recent ad basically accusing Sonia Sotomayor of being a terrorist , I thought I'd dust off the ol' archives and take a look back at the ads CFJ put …

The Right Readies for Sotomayor 07/13/2009 by Kyle Mantyla With Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation hearing getting underway, the Right readies its attacks. Manuel Miranda says "the Sotomayor hearings are a spotlight on the president who nominated her, and if …

Is The Right Suffering Collective Amnesia? 05/29/2009 by Kyle Mantyla You really have to hand it to the Right: when it comes to hypocrisy, they seemingly know no limit. Take this newest "Washington Update" from the Family Research Council demanding to …

Right Wing Reaction to Sotomayor 05/27/2009 by Kyle Mantyla So, anything happen while I was on vacation?  Oh yeah, President Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David Souter on the Supreme Court.  And guess what?  The Right already doesn't …

GOP Contemplating Filibusters of Johnsen and Hamilton 04/01/2009 by Kyle Mantyla Anyone who paid even a minimal amount of attention to the battle over judicial nominations during the George W. Bush’s presidency knows that Senate Republicans were unified …

Dubya's Judicial Victory Lap Marred By Memory Lapse 10/07/2008 by Kyle Mantyla At the Federalist Society's " The Presidency and the Courts " forum yesterday in Cincinnati, President Bush took time to rally the troops and bask in their loving glow as he …

Biden Known By His Enemies 08/27/2008 by Kyle Mantyla If one thing is for sure, it is that the paramount issue for the Right over the last several years has been gaining control over the federal judiciary and especially the Supreme Court. This has been …

The Right’s Continuing Outrage Over the “Gang of 14” 02/25/2008 by Kyle Mantyla It has been nearly three years since fourteen senators - seven Democrats and seven Republicans – hammered out a deal that preserved the use of the filibuster on judicial …

Twenty Years Later: Bork Backs Romney 12/17/2007 by Kyle Mantyla For months, Republican presidential hopefuls have been wooing potential conservative voters with pledges to nominate right-wing ideologues to the seats on the federal judiciary and, more …