Leahy is not very mysterious.
When you come from a State where the judges hand out 60 day sentences to men who repeatedly rape little girls over a several year period, and no one in the State sees anything wrong with the sentence, it stands to reason that he'd vote against anyone who'd stand up for real Justice.
My God...did you see the Vermont AG on Oreilly's show last night? BOre was talking to him about the repeated rape of this 6-yr old girl (until she was ten), and he sounded like he was doing a travel bureau commercial for his state...talking about Vermont's great environmental record and vacation attributes. He was mad at Bore for suggesting that the Vermont people protest the ruling, claiming their state is not a place for vigilante justice. It was unreal.