Maybe I should’ve led with the fact that state Sen. Creigh Deeds won tonight’s Democratic Gubernatorial primary in Virginia with 49% of the vote. But the fact that Terry McAuliffe lost with 27% of the vote seemed like a much more entertaining headline.

Sens. Joe Lieberman and Lindsay Graham are going to throw hissy fits and hold up whatever they can in the Senate if the provision that would block the release of those super-mysterious-and-probably-horribly- damning torture photos isn’t included in the supplemental spending bill. That provision would allow the release to be blocked for three years. Lieberman promises that “they will not go quietly into the night”. Whether they will go gentle and how much they would rage against the dying of the light remain unknown.

Per Brian Beutler, the Democrats are passing around the Hill the chart below, which demonstrates how the Republican desire to delay the Sotomayor confirmation compares to SCOTUS confirmations of years past:

Sonia Sotomayor’s SCOTUS hearing is scheduled to begin on July 13th.

Ahmed Ghailani, a Guantanamo detainee accused of bombing the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, was transferred to New York today to face trial. The Republicans are, predictably, treating it like a doomsday scenario. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R-OH) called it “the first step in the Democrats’ plan to import terrorists into America” while seeming aghast that the detainees may get similar rights to American citizens.