And more about Brenda Morris, Brenda Morris, Brenda Morris. Have I mentioned Brenda Morris?
Anyway, Clarice’s peroration:
Ethical rot in the arm of the Justice Department tasked with ensuring the integrity of public officials is unacceptable. In this case, a change in the political composition of the United States Senate was a direct consequence of the failure to disclose exculpatory evidence. The political integrity of our democracy is at stake.
Go thou forth and read the whole thing.
Comment by router on 4/9 @ 7:33 pm #
acorn already staked it
Comment by B Moe on 4/9 @ 7:39 pm #
Like the boss says, Stevens was a pork-guzzling corruptocrat even if his corruption didn’t rise to the level of a criminal offense. Aren’t we better off rid of him?
Isn’t AP a lawyer?
Comment by Carin on 4/9 @ 7:40 pm #
o/t, but a language story. Lawyer demoted for using term “ghetto court.”
Comment by router on 4/9 @ 7:42 pm #
yea like andy mccarthy at nro saying patrick fitzgerald is an honorable man. lawyers suck each other’s male appendages
Comment by Andy on 4/9 @ 7:58 pm #
yea like andy mccarthy at nro saying patrick fitzgerald is an honorable man. lawyers suck each other’s male appendages
A different Patrick F. … Frey. “Honorable”. Lawyer. Oh yeah, I’m seeing a pattern here.
Comment by happyfeet on 4/9 @ 8:06 pm #
Allah is a fucking useless joke. That wasn’t Ted Stevens what got railroaded. That was you. That was me. That was anyone Brenda Morris felt like fucking railroading, and her bitch ass should end up where she tried to put Senator Stevens’.
Comment by serr8d on 4/9 @ 8:07 pm #
Does it look to anyone else like Brenda colors her hair?
Comment by Spies, Brigands, and Pirates on 4/9 @ 8:10 pm #
She needs to get the Nifong treatment, at a minimum.
Comment by elktrumpet on 4/9 @ 8:10 pm #
AP has as much credibility on these issues as Barney Frank.
Comment by serr8d on 4/9 @ 8:13 pm #
Yep. Colored hair in the first link, not colored in this one.
Comment by router on 4/9 @ 8:20 pm #
brenda has the affirmative action look
Comment by JD on 4/9 @ 8:33 pm #
I just wonder who Brenda supported in the election.
Comment by happyfeet on 4/9 @ 8:41 pm #
Andy for real I don’t think Mr. Patterico would be flippant or nonchalant about prosecutorial misconduct. That doesn’t fit.
Comment by I am McGehee, bitches. on 4/9 @ 8:54 pm #
I see a distinction between saying we’re better off with Stevens sitting on his front porch no longer able to rob taxpayers at legislation-point, and defending the prosecutors who fucked up the case against him.
Having had occasion to observe Stevens up close while I was afflicted with his “representation” I was not at all surprised to learn of the charges against him. Nor am I convinced that an unfucked-up case would have resulted in his acquittal. If I were still an Alaskan my main cause of anger over this whole mess would be that the DOJ spent all that money only to have the defendant walk.
Republicans in Alaska could have prevented that seat going Democrat by the simple expedient of nominating someone else last August to go up against Begich in November. They chose instead to close ranks behind a Beltway-assimilated porkmeister out of dread that the earmarks might dry up.
Unlike Brooks or Allahpundit or Charles Johnson, Stevens was in a position to do real damage, not only to the GOP and the conservative brand, but to U.S. taxpayers.
What I hated him most for was his contribution over the years to annihilating Alaskans’ immunity to being dependent on D.C. for what they want. I came to despise a lot of my then-fellow Alaskans for their pork worship, and I held Stevens largely responsible.
So I’m not going to kick up much of a fuss about “me” being railroaded by a fucked-up prosecution. Stevens spent his whole damn political career railroading every last one of us.
Comment by LTC John on 4/9 @ 9:03 pm #
Don’t forget Don Young either.
I cannot see why Big A would try to pull some sort of Chicago cop “So we beat a guy who didn’t have anything to do with this particular crime…he musta done something bad in the past….” argument. The only thing I disliked more than the criminal defense bar, when I was a prosecutor, was a bad/slimy prosecutor.
Comment by happyfeet on 4/9 @ 9:04 pm #
I don’t like Stevens either but I think they are vastly different thingers. One is evil. The hoochie. The other one is the quintessence of what it truly means to be a Senator. That one is just sad. And even if you would have it that Stevens is evil it would pale next to the evil what will be wrought by a filibuster proof dirty socialist Senate I think.
Comment by happyfeet on 4/9 @ 9:05 pm #
I’m not a big fan of Lisa either. I was disappointed that Sarah isn’t going to take that seat from her.
Comment by The Castrated Republicans on 4/9 @ 9:11 pm #
B. Moe,
He is. And no lawyer worth his salt is celebrating that fact.
Comment by takeshi kovacs on 4/9 @ 9:16 pm #
Wasn’t it the Paulistas that did in large part support Stevens in the primary, against whoever the primary opponent was
Stevens was like the flu, but this bout of judicial malpractice was more like ebola or hemorhagic fever, much more toxic
Comment by blowhard on 4/9 @ 10:01 pm #
It takes me awhile to digest things but I’m still thinking about this post from Dan.
Comment by psycho... on 4/9 @ 11:44 pm #
Nifong got one day in jail.
As far as I can tell from my admittedly crappy research — clouded by hate, perhaps — that’s the most time any American prosecutor has ever been sentenced to for charges arising from official misconduct.
Also — the only time.
(Flag salute.)
Comment by elktrumpet on 4/10 @ 6:19 am #
HF – You are exactly right, but mcgehee is more interested in feeling good than doing good.
Comment by I am McGehee, bitches. on 4/10 @ 2:53 pm #
Bite me.
Doing good is getting Stevens out of office. It should have happened years ago and the right way to do it was for Alaska’s Republicans to nominate somebody else. When I lived up there I did my part but I was only one voter. So fick you.
Comment by I am McGehee, bitches. on 4/10 @ 2:55 pm #
I’ll repeat what I said: Alaska’s Republicans fucked that one up by continuing to nominate that cancerous lesion on the body politic, time and time and time again.
Had they done the right thing years ago none of this bullshit would have happened and we wouldn’t be arguing about whether it’s okay to say mean things about Ted Stevens after what that mean old DOJ did to him.
Comment by happyfeet on 4/10 @ 5:37 pm #
I’m not saying it’s not ok to say mean things about Ted Stevens it’s just that trying to take away someone’s freedom who is not guilty and put them in a room with a door what only has a handle on one side and make them take multicultural showers and eat suspect nourishments is really really unacceptable is what I think the takeaway is here.
Comment by B Moe on 4/10 @ 5:53 pm #
I agree with your point about greedy idiot voters, McGehee, but I think the best way to battle corrupt entrenched incumbents is with term limits, not corrupt entrenched Federal Prosecutors.
Comment by elktrumpet on 4/10 @ 8:33 pm #
No bitching about Stevens’ replacement, mcgehee.
Comment by MarkD on 4/11 @ 6:22 am #
I think a minimum of twenty years without parole would be appropriate for prosecutorial misconduct. Add permanent, public, ceremonial disbarring at the sentencing phase of the trial. With great power comes great responsibility.