Although there is this, from Wiki:
Gérson had his name unfortunately associated with the infamous Gérson’s law (lei de Gérson in Portuguese). He starred in a cigarette advertising campaign in the ’70s which had a tagline I like to take advantage of everything and became a codeword for the traditional Brazilian disregard for Laws & Rules.[1] He later repudiated the sentiment.

But the subpoena requests are a straight up tactical legal move by Gerson I think. Heck, Ted Wells would have tried to subpoena Obama. And then cried to “Give Blago back to teh fine people of Illinois”.

Don’t expect his moves to be completely rational.

Exactly what Fitz does not want.

And all of these people have a problem; to make themselves look the most innocent, they are going to concurrently make Blago look innocent. Downplaying and removing taint from any interaction they had with Blago, which will be their tendency, will help Blago too, and he knows it. And this portion of the case is the weakest part, so if holes can be cracked wide open in this, it is going to undercut the rest of the case, both for impeachment and criminal. Since they are going to make him deal with a parallel impeachment proceeding, Blago is going to turn the table and wring every ounce out of it, and be as big a pain in the ass as he can. From a defense perspective, this is smart.

With Fitzgerald throwing the Senate Seat Sale bone to the Illinois legislature, yet keeping the good stuff for the indictment – hospitals and the Trib – yeah, I can see MacBlago turning this impeachment process into pure bathos – but what’s the goal?

His standing as a Dem is – well, isn’t.

If the point to set up to run for re-election as an independent, a 4% approval rating isn’t exactly the strongest position to campaign from, and there’s more than enough Illinois Dems proud enough of the brand with one of their own in the White House to turn out in numbers just to save the brand.

If the premise is to set up a talk radio gig, even midwest talk radio stars like T.D. Mischke are getting pink slips, the entire genre has taken such severe kicking right in the demograhics from XL music and the Toobz.

So I’m prepared to buy “smart” in some narrow tactical sense – like escaping a dog fight by jerking the rudder up into the stratosphere – but how’s that “smart” when he’s already down to fumes and his ship can’t glide?

A.: Because al-Marri and Padilla v. Hanft are still good law.