Fun listening


The lawyers in the audience might get a kick out of hearing the oral arguments in the case of U.S. v. Thompson, the politically motivated case out of Wisconsin. You can listen here .

The case was described by one of the judges on the panel as "beyond thin". Somehow (apparently with the help of a partisan judge-remember they're stocking the courts as well as the Justice Department) they managed to get a conviction against a civil servant for doing her job and trying to please her bosses. The facts are set forth well in the course of the argument, so give it a listen. The judge's bias seems evident from the fact that he was willing to jail the woman pending appeal when anyone in their right mind could have seen the substantial probability that the conviction would be overturned.

Pity the poor Assistant U.S. Attorney who was given the task of arguing this turkey. Just another indication that the U.S. Attorney involved (Steven Biskupic), besides being in Rove's pocket, must be a total [insert word for male appendage here]. It takes a special kind of coward to make a lower level guy take a pounding in a turkey case like this to spare yourself the trouble of facing the music in a situation you created yourself.
Posted: Tuesday - April 10, 2007 at 07:26 PM          

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