steve benen

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, just said on the Senate floor that he will vote against cloture on the nomination of David Hamilton, the district court judge in Indiana nominated to the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals.
Sessions earlier wrote a letter to his colleagues urging them to oppose [...]

Steve Benen over at The Washington Monthly has a nice commentary on Alberto Gonzales and his recent lament that he’s “one of the many casualties of the war on terror,” as he told the Wall Street Journal earlier this week.
Echoing some of the themes running through my story posted today, Benen writes:
Is Gonzales really that [...]