At least that is the way I read this from Huffington Post. Sounds like he could have played a role in getting attention to the case in a good way. But he did not. I don't know more than what I read in the post..if it is supposition of the blogger or fact.
But it does go along with the shocking way that the Democrats have ignored his case. It has almost been like a concerted effort not to pay attention to Siegelman and the injustice.
From June 2:
Andrew Kreig on Artur Davis and his primary lossIn a stunning rejection of the Republican-lite tactics often favored by Democratic party leaders in red and swing states, Alabama Agriculture Commissioner Ron Sparks upset Congressman Artur Davis in Tuesday's primary for their party's gubernatorial nomination.
..."After initial interest in the Siegelman case Davis resigned from the House Judiciary Committee, avoiding pressure to explore allegations of injustice by Alabama whistleblowers who risked everything to seek better oversight of the justice system. One was DOJ paralegal Tamarah Grimes, a Republican fired by the Justice Department after criticizing the Siegelman prosecution for waste and unfairness. Unable to obtain a Judiciary Committee invitation to testify, she's now out of work, faced with massive legal bills, and in the process of losing her home to foreclosure.
Another was Dana Jill Simpson, a small-town Alabama attorney and longtime Republican political volunteer who gave sworn statements to the committee and Siegelman's judge in 2007 alleging Republican plans to frame the Democrat Siegelman to prevent his reelection. After concluding that Davis didn't want to investigate the bogus federal charges for fear of antagonizing powerful Republicans Simpson vowed a year ago to work against his election.
More from Simpson:
"If Davis had pushed for witnesses before the Judiciary Committee and they'd taken the Fifth Amendment," she said this morning in a phone interview, "it would have ended the Siegelman prosecution years ago. Instead, we see Siegelman facing 20 more years in prison and his innocent co-defendant serving seven years on these trumped up charges."
She's also among a number of Alabama attorneys and commentators wondering why the federal appointment process Davis leads as his state's senior federal elected Democrat hasn't moved more forcefully to replace the Bush-appointed U.S. attorney Leura Canary, whose middle district office prosecuted Siegelman and whose husband leads the Business Council of Alabama."
I don't know the full impact on Siegelman of the Supreme Court ruling this week, but I do know that Democrats have had chances to right this wrong. They chose not to do so.
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