Comments on: Blagojevich’s Lawyers Don’t Do Impeachment

By: tanbark

tanbark — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 19:14:06 +0000

Hey! Isn’t Roland a lawyer?

Let HIM do it…pro bono. :o) What could be fairer? :o)

By: fahrender

fahrender — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:46:04 +0000

let Blago have a public defender ……

By: tanbark

tanbark — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 18:27:47 +0000

The sight of Blago twisting in the wind, as counterpoint to his choice; a smiling, ecastatic, Roland Burris, is too funny.

Wait until the real pianos start falling. :o)

By: emptywheel

emptywheel — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:45:26 +0000

Yup

It doesn’t seem too incriminating, yet. But then I remember from Sibel Edmonds that Denny loves him some corruption.

By: freepatriot

freepatriot — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 05:14:34 +0000

blagoff has the right to a fair trial

a fair impeachment isn’t a part of the bargain

and did anybody notice that the blagoff is all in favor of fairness NOW ???

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 04:00:33 +0000

Re: Whitewashes

I’m occasionally reminded of a fictional tv commercial for a product called Ecce Homo detergent:

Pepa: Hello. I’m the mother of the notorious Crossroads Killer. When my son comes home after one of his famous crimes, his clothes are just filthy.
[Pepa holds up a bloody shirt. The police arrive]
PolicÌa I: Where are the clothes your son wore…
PolicÌa II: At the time of the murder?
[Pepa takes a clean shirt out of the dryer]
Pepa: Right here. Sparkling clean.
PolicÌa I: No trace of blood.
PolicÌa II: Or guts.
PolicÌa I: Unbelievable!
[Pepa holds up a box of detergent]
Pepa: Ecce Homo. It’s unbelievable.

By: bmaz

bmaz — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:58:39 +0000

think Clinton. He had a battery of attorneys led by Greg Craig; although for my money, by far the most effective was Cheryl Mills. Note that the Democtatic impeachment counsel, who was not technically a “Clinton lawyer” effectively worked as one. The guy’s name was Abbe Lowell and he is one superb attorney and was even more effective than Mills. Blago isn’t going to get any help from the Illinois Congressional Dems like Clinton did. Blago has no friends and is a cooked goose.

There really is no reason to waste resources or time on the impeachment. He should have played a resignation along with no Senate seat appointment together as a card for getting a criminal plea and been done with all this.

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:42:02 +0000

Since nobody else has asked this, I guess will: In executive impeachment trials in legislatures, what kind of lawyering help does the impeachee typically hire, and how is that help different from legal help given in ordinary criminal or civil trials?

By: MadDog

MadDog — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:03:12 +0000

Not OT - EW, did you see this yet?

Hastert noted in Blago complaint

A report published on Thursday names former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert as “Individual C” in the criminal complaint filed against Gov. Rod Blagojevich…

…Hastert spokesman Brad Hahn said Thursday that Hastert doesn’t know whether he is Individual C or not, and he “can’t begin to guess” the context of the conversation, or Blagojevich’s intentions. Hastert did work on passing a $25 billion capital bill as part of the Illinois Works Coalition last year. That effort stalled in the House…

By: MadDog

MadDog — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 00:45:36 +0000

Totally OT - The DoD Inspector General’s Examination of Allegations Involving DoD Public Affairs Outreach Program report should be marketed as the ultimate in laundry detergent. A whiter wash you’ll never get!