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Bush Did the Same Thing That Landed Don Siegelman in Prison

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"I have never encountered another prosecution in which it appears so clearly that the prosecutors were zealously bent on pursuing an individual, rather than on a crime," reads the note, obtained by the Huffington Post. "As an example of bad faith prosecution, the Siegelman case may be without parallel.... There is no better example of the corrosive effect on the reputation of the Department of Justice... than the prosecution of Don Siegelman."
Meanwhile, TPM Muckraker recently reported that Rove is expected to testify before Congress in early June.

Here's a question someone might want to ask Rove right up front: As governor of Texas, George W. Bush routinely appointed his donors to boards and commissions. Why did that same behavior, when practiced by Alabama Democrat Don Siegelman, suddenly become criminal under Mr. Bush's Justice Department? Please explain.

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I live in Birmingham, Alabama, and work in higher education. I became interested in justice-related issues after experiencing gross judicial corruption in Alabama state courts. This corruption has a strong political component. The corrupt judges are (more...)
 

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Southern Justice? by Archie on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 at 2:23:37 PM
Because... by Bia Winter on Wednesday, May 13, 2009 at 9:09:52 AM