Ed Whelan

Filibustering A D.C. Circuit Court Judicial Nominee

The Huffington Post | Arin Greenwood | Posted 12.08.2011

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WASHINGTON -- This week's Republican filibustering of judicial nominee Caitlin Halligan brought to light a whole bunch of ironies. In Slate, Dahlia...

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Ed Whelan Compares Elena Kagan To Prostitute

Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ed Whelan, a conservative writer for National Review Online and president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is under fire for using a prostitute...

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Kagan, Gays, and the Bogus Right Wing Ideas Factory

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathaniel Frank

As Elena Kagan has emerged a front-runner for President Obama's nomination to the Supreme Court, the right wing's opposition playbook has not been updated in decades. But the world has changed around it.

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Jason Linkins

Ed Whelan, 'Outer' Of Pseudonymous Law Blogger, Apologizes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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This whole big plate of hot mess went down this weekend between these two legal affairs bloggers, and the whole thing ended with the masked blogger getting unmasked, which is a violation of the "bro code" or something.

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Sam Stein

Attack On Sotomayor's Political Ties Ignores Roberts' Link To Bush

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 05.25.2011

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A new line of attack against Judge Sonia Sotomayor holds that the Supreme Court nominee lacks impartiality because she has been a public supporter of ...

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Nico Pitney

National Review Writer: Obama Likely Would Have Been Aborted, Had It Been Legal

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

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Ed Whelan baselessly speculates in the National Review that Barack Obama's deceased mother "very possibly" would have aborted her son had Roe v. Wade ...

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