Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Sleaze)

Patrick Leahy (D-Sleaze)

www.nationalreview.com  |Ed Whelan|17 minutes ago

Senator Patrick Leahy, the ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, says it’s “sleazy” and “beneath the dignity of the federal judiciary” for Senate Republicans not to hold a hearing on the Garland nomination. He further claims that he “showed a lot of independence when [he] was chairman of that committee” and that “he held hearings on even controversial things, whether the leadership liked it or not.”Oh, really?Is this the same Senator Leahy who, as chairman of the Judiciary Committee in 2007 and 2008, refused to hold hearings on 31 of George W. Bush’s judicial nominees?The same Senator Leahy who promised 
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