Mark my words: Chris Dodd‘s attack on Clinton for supporting “the privilege of a driver’s liscence” for illegal immigrants, even though she said that’s not, in fact, what she supports, is going to have legs. The issues of “privileges” for those who don’t deserve them is a repeated Republican line of attack against Democrats who support rights for disenfranchised populations, and I was surprised to hear it coming from Dodd, of all people, as he’s generally been to the left of the other senators.

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.