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• Siegelman Appears on Fox News, Again…

  
  The Locust Fork News-Journal — Authority: 427
  Former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman made his case once again on Fox News on Tuesday. He is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court will take up his conviction in a review of the law against honest services mail fraud.The Supreme Court is considering about a half-dozen cases on the rights of people accused of crimes involving [...]
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• Why Is Obama Troubled by Corruption in Afghanistan, but not in U.S.?

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 426
  We enthusiastically cast our ballots for Barack Obama in November 2008 partly because, after eight years of George W. Bush, we couldnt wait to have a smart guy in the White House again. Almost one year into the Obama presidency, we still think hes a smart guy. And thats why it pains us when he takes a position that ...
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• Time Magazine Ignores a Key Story in "The Decade From Hell"

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 426
  The cover story for the current issue of Time magazine (dated December 7, 2009) tells us that we are experiencing probably the worst decade in modern American history . Time recites a litany of dreadful events that have marked the years 2000-2010, but it goes relatively easy on the guy who occupied the White ...
  4 days ago

• Siegelman: Justice Department Hasnt Changed Under Obama

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 426
  How has the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) changed now that George W. Bush is gone and President Barack Obama is in charge? It hasnt changed , says former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. And thats distressing news for progressives who hoped to see accountability for the Bush officials who used the DOJ as a ...
  1 week ago

• Losing Football Coach Goes Out a Winner

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 426
  Al Groh lost his job as head football coach at the University of Virginia over the weekend. But he won fans here at Legal Schnauzer . During a press conference after a season-ending 42-13 loss to Virginia Tech on Saturday, Groh recited a poem called "The Guy in the Glass." Its a poem about being able to live with ...
  1 week ago

• Odds and ends for 11/27

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 434
  Down in the desert: Dubai, whose potential sovereign-debt default is in today’s news, is messed up, economically and in other ways. Zero Hedge’s Marla Singer, who has spent time there, offers a pretty readable summary . Key takeaway: Dubai’s travails say a lot less about the pitfalls of capitalism than meets ...
  1 week ago

• A prediction: Governor Siegelman will be far from the last victim of this "Bush III"-style administration

  
  DownWithTyranny! — Authority: 621
  "As long as we have the same people in charge looking at the question of prosecutorial misconduct, were going to get the same answers. Thats because theyre trying to cover their asses." -- former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, in an interview with TPM Muckraker (see link below) by Ken This is just awful. ...
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• Disappointed Siegelman: Obama Justice Dept. Virtually The Same As Bush DOJ

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 767
  When the Obama Administration argued in a filing earlier this month that the Supreme Court should not consider an appeal by Don Siegelman, the former Alabama governor wasnt surprised, even though the Obama filing maintained the Bush-era stance in Siegelmans controversial corruption case. "Theres really been no ...
  1 week ago

• Linkimus dumpus

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 497
  More than anything I’m putting up another post because I want to flag something for you. John Cole appears to be just about the only “news” source on the planet who’s put together the fact that CNN’s “Killing at the Canals” series on rogue U.S. troops in Iraq is about the same platoon Scott Beauchamp ...
  2 weeks ago

• Will Obama Appoint a "Rabid Republican" to Key Alabama Post?

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 426
  The Barack Obama administration is leaning toward appointing a "rabid, right-wing Republican" as U.S. attorney for the Middle District of Alabama, site of the Don Siegelman prosecution. Tamara Matthews Johnson, an African-American woman with Republican leanings, has the inside track to the job , according to a ...
  2 weeks ago

• WTF? Obama lawyers to Democrat alleging political prosecution: Go back to jail

  
  Progressive News Daily — Authority: 162
  By John Byrne The Raw Story Go back to jail. That’s the message from Obama administration lawyers to former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, whose case became a cause célèbre among Bush administration critics as ground zero of alleged political prosecutions. The seeming disconnect between Obama’s team and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Obama Administration Opposes Siegelmans Supreme Court Appeal

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 767
  The solicitor general of the Obama Administration is arguing against former Alabama Governor Don Siegelmans appeal of his controversial bribery conviction to the Supreme Court. The Friday development, first reported by the Birmingham News , hinges on the argument by Siegelman and co-defendant Richard Scrushy, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Don Siegelman Goes to Washington

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 426
  The push for justice in the case of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman has taken on a Washington, D.C., flavor. And that makes sense because a federal trial court in Montgomery, Alabama, and the U.S. 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta have shown that they are not going to let the facts and the law influence ...
  3 weeks ago

• Will Greg Craigs Exit Lead to Justice on Political Prosecutions?

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 426
  When Greg Craig stepped down late last week as White House counsel, it might have been the single most positive sign progressives have seen on justice matters from the Barack Obama administration. Jill Simpson, Alabama lawyer and whistleblower in the Don Siegelman case, calls Craigs exit a "terrific step in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• The snark before Wegestock

  
  Norwegianity — Authority: 497
  A funny thing happened to Katherine Kersten on her way to the snarkfest. She laid it on so thick that Katherine’s churlish wordle grew three sizes today! And the minute her heart didn’t feel quite so right, she whizzed out an upload on the bright morning snow. And she brought back good penmanship! With the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Karl Roves buddy resigns post as WH Counsel

  
  At-Largely — Authority: 564
  Greg Craig has finally been pushed out as White House Counsel. But we can thank him for all of his efforts in crafting what has come to be known as the "deal with the devil" - the deal between Karl... [Want to read the whole piece? Visit atlargely.com for full links, other content, and more]
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• Legal Schnauzer Hits the Airwaves Today

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 426
  I will be a guest today on the My Technology Lawyer radio show, hosted by Andrew Kreig and Scott Draughon. We will be discussing recent revelations about campaign funds from Mississippi gambling interests that went to Alabama governor Bob Riley in the 2002 election. Those funds, apparently laundered through ...
  3 weeks ago

• Republicans Try to Shoot the Messenger on Corruption in Alabama

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 426
  Alabama Republicans, predictably, have tried to discredit GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Johnson after his statements late last week that current governor Bob Riley received millions of dollars in campaign funds from Mississippi gambling interests in 2002. A Riley spokesman said Johnson, a former member of Rileys ...
  4 weeks ago

• New Alabama U.S. Attorney nominee.

  
  Tim Lennox OFFair and ONline — Authority: 136
     Rep. Artur Davis has apparently recommended Montgomery lawyer George Beck for the U.S. Attorney spot for the Middle District, replacing Leura Canary, according to Docs Political Parlor .    Beck was a guest on For The Record  in the Summer of 2007 to discuss the Don Siegelman sentencing, and the video is ...
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• Could Revelations on Campaign Funding Blow the Roof Off GOP Corruption in Alabama?

  
  Legal Schnauzer — Authority: 426
  A former member of Bob Rileys cabinet confirmed yesterday that the Alabama governor received millions of dollars in campaign funds from Mississippi gaming interests. That leaves us with this gaping question: Will the new revelations lead to an investigation of possible criminal actions by Republican Party insiders, ...
  4 weeks ago

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