Comments on: Why Might Schlozman Have Been Referred to a Grand Jury

By: BlueStateRedHead

BlueStateRedHead — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:55:01 +0000

What did happen to the Acorn who plead guilty? and the other four,I believe. Googling got me the indictment, but not the decision.

If Alvin in indicted in this case, does Acorn have remedies civil or federal.

and while on the topic of AUSA who “overperformed”, what chance of prosecution for the wrongful imprisonment of Georgia Thompson, whose only remedy has so far been reinstatement, recovery of lost pay, and IIRC although Wiki does not say so, legal costs. It was a TPM story, but I have greater faith in the memory of EW and her readers than in TPM’s search engine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Biskupic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgia_Thompson

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04.....6mon4.html

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:34:42 +0000

Yessiree bob. A district court order is appealable in this case to the D.C. Circuit where 18/21 judges are little Bushie Martinette Robots and Melanie Sloan a former AUSA filed a notice of appeal this morning before lunch.

CREW RESPONDS TO COURT RULING THAT WHITE HOUSE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATION IS NOT AN AGENCY

Melanie Sloan is an excellent litigator but she faces some steep odds given the politicization of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. I mean to dig in to precedents that I think impact the decision this morning and Melanie will do a good job in her brief.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:29:56 +0000

Republicans don’t acknowledge the existence of the hijacking of DOJ or the fucking up of Main Justice by a cast of hundreds. I’ve caught snippets of hearings where they pretend nothing is amiss at DOJ. David Iglesias expressed amusement over the Schloz’s pending indictment on Jon Stewart while plugging his new book.

By: PetePierce

PetePierce — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 06:24:57 +0000

So in the prison law library would it be “Yo mah man Schloz how many stamps will it cost for you to do my 2255, or yo Big Schloz mah boo lez git down n do mah 2255? Will Brad the man no how to Shepardize by hand without his Westlaw and Lexus, and how will he like waiting for months to get paper Federal Reporters and grinding out them 2255s on the shit typewriters his new orientation to DOJ will provide him?

By: JohnLopresti

JohnLopresti — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:27:26 +0000

Schlozman’s hearing May 29, 2007 was interesting for the fact that many Democratic party members on the Senate Judiciary Committee attended, but the Republicans boycotted that hearing, the fifth in the series on politicization of the US Attorney’s office, without admitting that was why no Republicans showed up. So far I have yet to locate a GPO transcript of the proceedings, though Schlozman and Leahy posted formal statements preHearing; however, the SJC site provides the a video archive link. I tend to tire with video’s linearity and unsearchability. WSJ has a notice posted re the GJ process in Schlozman’s future, paywalled. Somewhat OT, Bauer has written about libertarians who were critics of the politicization of the voting section at DoJ, some of whom are consulting for McCain, evidently, in an interesting review of the condition of FEC. And, somewhat more onPoint, League of WomenVoters at last notice had tried a court action to discredit the acornSuppressive schedule of fines in FL, a month ago, though I need to follow that initiative as it develops, LoWV, had checked out of the voter registration business after 60 years, in FL, as of that writing. And drifting still somewhat offTopic, I found a nice history of yet another regulatory body related to Schlozman’s chosen area of vote discouragements, EAC in an AP article published two days ago, linked. I am glad DoJ has continued to read the Schlozman file, as there is much disarray in the usual oversight agencies this election cycle. I noticed, too, that in FL there is an unusual opening for the Republican governor to shift the balance on their state supreme court, which might reverse the balance seen in the Y2k showdown between that bench and the Republican legislature over things like chads and noCounting of votes.

By: SaltinWound

SaltinWound — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 18:21:52 +0000

Wasn’t part of the problem with Congress’ US Attorney purge investigations that there wasn’t an underlying crime they could cite to combat claims of Executive privilege? Does this help at all?

By: Waccamaw

Waccamaw — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:29:19 +0000

Thanks for the reminder….it’s time to send CREW a little green love for the work they do.

By: Bushie

Bushie — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:22:26 +0000

Thanks, that’s a great article and shows this is one of many in the hopper. PTL, some justice at Justice might just happen!

By: FrankProbst

FrankProbst — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:09:27 +0000

Can CREW appeal Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s order? If so, do they plan to?

I would assume so. Melanie “I had the FBI for breakfast” Sloan isn’t really one to back down.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:05:28 +0000

Can CREW appeal Judge Kollar-Kotelly’s order? If so, do they plan to?