I wrote about this earlier this week.

But this one deserves a double dip.

Whitaker has made friendly remarks about nullification. This is not allowed, even though Thomas Jefferson said the states could nullify unconstitutional federal laws.

(No modern critic of the idea ever mentions Jefferson's name. They're afraid if we know Jefferson supported it, we peons might get ideas.)

CNN legal analyst Renato Mariotti offered these deep thoughts:

"'Nullification' was a legal argument made by Southerners before the Civil War who believed their states could 'nullify' federal law. That argument was discredited after their defeat in the Civil War, but it was made again by racists opposing desegregation. And now by Whitaker."

I document the actual history of nullification in some detail in my book Nullification. Mariotti's version reads like a third-grade essay, with a dash of Orwell.