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Stealing Our Democracy with Former Gov. Don Siegelman (Original Post) elleng Mar 2020 OP
K&R MustLoveBeagles Mar 2020 #1
Obama should have pardoned him... Jeebo Mar 2020 #2
Yes. elleng Mar 2020 #3
+1 n/t ariadne0614 Mar 2020 #5
K&R 2naSalit Mar 2020 #4
K&R Thanks for posting. alwaysinasnit Mar 2020 #6

Jeebo

(2,005 posts)
2. Obama should have pardoned him...
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 01:31 AM
Mar 2020

If I had been inaugurated president on Jan. 20, 2009, at noon EST, Don Siegelman would have been out of prison by 5 p.m. EST on that same day... And then, after my attorney general was confirmed, Leura Canary would have been fired and an investigation of her for politically motivated prosecution would have commenced... and then Canary and everybody else involved in that travesty of justice would have been in prison...

-- Ron

elleng

(130,126 posts)
3. Yes.
Sun Mar 29, 2020, 01:43 AM
Mar 2020

'Attorney General Eric Holder has shown little or no inclination to intervene in apparent Bush-era political prosecutions involving Democrats, such as Don Siegelman in Alabama and Paul Minor in Mississippi.

So far, Holder has intervened in federal prosecutions involving Republicans, most notably the case of former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK).

Why does Holder seem content to let the Siegelman and Minor cases languish? Alabama attorney and Siegelman-case whistleblower Jill Simpson says she might have the answer.

Simpson, a former opposition researcher for the Republican Party in Alabama, is skilled at tracking down information. She learned that Holder, before being named Barack Obama's attorney general, worked for a Washington, D.C., law firm called Covington & Burling. And what did Simpson discover about that august firm?'

https://upload.democraticunderground.com/100210294288

I'm not keen on attributing motives based on law firms' clients. Neither am I keen on Eric Holder.

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