July 14, 2009

Leahy: Why We Blocked Estrada

Sen. Leahy just admitted that Miguel Estrada, the man who might have been the High Court’s first Hispanic justice, was obstructed by Senate Democrats for two years to punish the Bush Administration for not releasing documents, despite the fact that, in Leahy’s words, the lack of release was “no fault of [Estrada’s].”