"Given that Elena Kagan argued the Siegelman case was correctly decided, we have this obvious

[midnight]

question: Why is the Obama DOJ not going after Rick Perry?"


"Why is one legal standard applied to Rick Perry and another to Don Siegelman? For that matter, why is one legal standard applied to George W. Bush (and an almost endless list of other GOP governors) and another to Don Siegelman?

Those questions are at the very heart of the political-prosecution era that the Bush DOJ ushered into our political environment.

A Perry spokesman responded to The Times article by saying the interactions with donors did not constitute bribery:

Mark Miner, a spokesman for Mr. Perry, said there was no connection between Mr. McHale’s contributions and the grant to G-Con. He said that the purpose of the state money was to create jobs and that it was appropriate for Mr. Perry to appoint people who support his vision and policies to state oversight posts."
http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2011/08/will-rick-perry-be-targeted-for-federal.html

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[tblue]

2. She what?

She was one of the only reasons I thought we all had to keep voting for Obama. Oh crap. Yeah, that's a double standard alright. What else? What the hell is left to like?

[markpkessinger]

4. If you thought either of this President's SC appointments were jparitcularly progressive....

... then you were sadly mistaken.

[glowing]

5. Definitely not all that progressive. AND its way past time for a

flaming, liberal ascend to the Supremes.

[markpkessinger]

9. What I wouldn't give for another William Brennan! n/t

[xchrom]

3. her reasoning on that case drives me crazy. nt

[The Doctor.]

6. God has damned America.

We are a nation of instant gratification, intellectual dilapidation, and coprophagous mastication. We have morons on the right, morons on the left, and a world of bullshit tilting the scales straight into 'wrong'.

The Dog and Pony show isn't over, and people are arguing over whether the canine or equine will take the prize. Too long ago the bovine took it out the back, and no one wants to follow the trail of patties.

We're well and goodly screwn.

[The Wizard]

11. coprophagous mastication

What, no room for vomit?

[OwnedByFerrets]

7. Huge K and R

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. k&r

[Festivito]

10. The Obama DOJ? Did not Bush use the Patriot Act to replace it, and Obama, yet, has not.

So, why not Rick Perry? Because Bush made the DOJ partisan.

[leftyohiolib]

12. iokiyar