Instead of humbly pulling back from his campaign to bully his political opponents after a flurry of negative editorials, Dick Durbin has doubled down on arrogance and constitutional ignorance. In his response to the Chicago Tribune editorial, "Durbin's enemies list," the senior senator from Illinois refused to concede the obvious point: that he was bullying his political opponents and generally making a mockery of the First Amendment. You'd think that after Durbin was caught targeting conservative groups in an earlier letter to the Internal Revenue Service, he'd be more cautious. To the contrary, Durbin has now sent 300 intimidating letters to donors of the free market advocacy group, American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC). In his rebuttal to the Tribune editorial, Durbin stubbornly insists he has a right to donor information because he, as a public official, has to make certain public disclosures. Durbin is confused. He works for us. The disclosures he...(Read Full Post)