Monday, June 18, 2007
The Gonzo Effect
Or what you can expect a lot more of the longer Our Dear Embattled Leader keeps his favorite chihuahua as Attorney General. According to the LA Times, defense attorneys are beginning to question the integrity of US Attorneys and their prosecutions if the is any political connection.
Missouri lawyers have invoked the controversy in challenging last year's indictment of a company owned by a prominent Democrat, on suspicion of violating federal wage and hour laws. The indictment, which came two months after the owner announced that she was running for political office, was obtained by a Republican U.S. attorney who also has been criticized because he charged workers for a left-leaning political group on the eve of the 2006 midterm election.So we may now see Republicans being responsible for child pornographers being put back on the street. And Lord knows what else may have to be let go. But as we all remember, IOKIYAR!
A lawyer in a child pornography case recently defended his client at a federal trial in Minnesota in part by questioning the motives of the Republican U.S. attorney, who has come under scrutiny in the congressional investigation into the prosecutor purge.
Lawyers for a former county official in Delaware who has been accused of corruption asked a judge in early May to allow them to subpoena the Justice Department and White House for documents to see whether political motives factored into charges being brought against the official. They cited the brewing controversy inside the Beltway.
"Those revelations dramatically reinforce the reasons to believe that considerations beyond mere law enforcement are behind this prosecution," the lawyers wrote.
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