We call it the “Magic Marker” resistance because so much of the liberal furor these days is prepackaged fill-in-the-blank anger.
The “#STOP ______” sign protesting Trump’s Supreme Court pick was a perfect example. Sen. Jeff Merkley’s press release attacking Neil Gorsuch that didn’t even include Gorsuch’s name.
From American Bridge, the Democratic activist PAC, comes the below gem, in their research report: “Neil Gorsuch: Too Extreme for the Supreme Court.”
Let’s follow their citation, to this AP story in the Star-News. Here’s the relevant paragraph:
Hardiman has sided with jails seeking to strip-search inmates arrested for even minor offenses and has supported gun rights, dissenting in a 2013 case that upheld a New Jersey law to tighten requirements for carrying a handgun in public. Last year, he joined two 3rd Circuit colleagues …
This liberal super PAC was so ready to oppose any GOP judge, that it just threw its scurrilous attacks on Thomas Hardiman into its scurrilous white paper on Gorsuch.
Ed Whalen of the Ethics and Public Policy Center noted: “That reference to ‘two 3rd Circuit colleagues’ might have clued you in. Speaking of concussions …”
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