Are properly inflated basketballs a constitutional "right?" If you ask Deval Patrick, they are, and if convicted killers don't get their hands on properly inflated basketballs, Deval isn't a happy camper.

Democrat Deval Patrick has championed the constitutional “rights” of convicted rapists and murderers, demanding they be given juice, clean sheets, cold tuna sandwiches, white underwear and properly inflated basketballs, records show.

While working as President Clinton’s top civil rights lawyer in the mid-1990s, Patrick sent letters to prison officials in several states, alleging violations from inadequate air conditioning and insufficient recreation time to denying cons juice or milk at lunch and requiring inmates to make $2 medical co-payments.

In one 1994 Department of Justice letter, Patrick chastised correction officials in Syracuse, N.Y., for not providing “sufficient sporting/recreation equipment to afford prisoners the opportunity to participate in large muscular activity.” Among the injustices cited by the DOJ were “under inflated basketballs” and “only 1 operative basketball hoop.”

There's a whole laundry list of so-called constitutional "rights" Deval Patrick has demanded for criminals, rapists and murders... and make no mistake about it, Patrick is "is proud of his work on behalf of President Clinton."

So are criminals, rapists and murderers and all the lowlifes he has spent his career looking out for.