Rand Paul’s sloppy Tea Party showboating: Another plagiarism mess!

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Teaming up with Ken Cuccinelli to sue the NSA, he’s accused of stealing the lawsuit from another lawyer

JOAN WALSH

You can’t make this stuff up. Sen. Rand Paul, who endured a multi-chaptered scandal involving his plagiarizing speeches and book chapters, is now accused of stealing the work of constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein for his lawsuit against the National Security Agency.

Even more remarkable, he replaced Fein as his legal partner with Ken Cuccinelli, the former Virginia Attorney General who lost his race for governor to Terry McAuliffe. Nothing says “liberty” like the Cooch, especially for women. Cuccinelli is an anti-abortion zealot, opposed to exceptions for rape and incest. He supports personhood legislation that could criminalize some forms of birth control and opposes public funding for contraception. He also pushed to reinstate Virginia’s anti-sodomy laws after a court struck them down.

A side-question for Paul and other libertarians: Why are they usually most agitated to protect the liberty of straight white men?

The Washington Post’s Dana Milbank broke the news of the purloined lawsuit. He saw both documents and found whole passages had been lifted from Fein’s work. “Except for some cuts and minor wording changes, they are clearly the same documents,” Milbank wrote.

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http://www.salon.com/2014/02/13/rand_paul%E2%80%99s_sloppy_tea_party_showboating_another_plagiarism_mess/

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