So far it's been like shooting fish in a barrel... with a machine gun.

Eugene Volokh blasts the Brady Campaign for misrepresenting what Samuel Alito wrote about the federal law banning machine guns.

Those who are springing into action to try to take down Alito by making him look like a right-wing ideologue seemed to have blinded themselves to the way they look. The Brady Campaign put out a press release calling Alito "'Machine Gun Sammy,' a Perfect Halloween Pick." Do they think only their hardcore supporters read their press releases? They seem so deeply embedded in partisan politics that they they don't even notice the danger that people will see them as:

1. Unfair to a worthy man with a long career of public service

2. Incapable of reading a judge's opinions and understanding legal reasoning

3. Willing to distort and deceive to advance their own political interest

4. Unconcerned about the longterm degradation of respect for the institution of law

5. Woefully ignorant of the fact that lawprofs and lawyers are reading their statements and blogging about them.

So far it's been like shooting fish in a barrel... with a machine gun.

Could you Alito enemies try to be a little subtle and crafty pursuing your agenda? I mean, we'll keep critiquing your efforts -- we aren't going to start feeling sorry for you -- but I'm getting bored with how easy the work is.