Durbin Vs. Turley

Get out your popcorn and lawn chairs. This is gonna be good.

Jonathan Turley, well-respected reporter/columnist kind of guy,
says that Senator Dicky Durbin told him a story about the meeting
he had with Supreme Court nominee John Roberts. Durbin said that
Roberts said he would recuse himself in any case in which his religious
views would interfere with the morality of the law in question.

Turley writes all of this down, calls Durbin's press secretary to confirm
and with all ok, prints the story.

Durbin (via his press secretary) all in a tither with Turley's account.

And Charles Hurt from the Washington Times gets the
scoop on it all.
Most excellent, Mr. Hurt.

Now, I have to say -- I'm shocked, SHOCKED, I tell you, that
Dick Durbin would deploy the religious litmus test................
so early in the process.

As for the kerfluffle over who said what to whom and when -- I'll take the word of the Surpeme Court nominee with the "deeply held personal beliefs" over the politician who views religious devotion as a vice, not a virtue.

I mean, come on. Durbin is the guy who compared our soldiers to Nazis. He has been so over the top on so many different subjects, it is hard to keep track.

Wendy Long also does a great job of talking about the dust-up over at Bench Memos at NRO.