SCOTUS dumps two cases while our attention is on Wisconsin.
Like the old Friday news dumps that would effectively bake a story over a weekend so it would be too old to talk about come Monday, we bring you, the everybody is looking at Wisconsin court dump:
1.
Supreme Court backs Secret Service arrest of man confronting Cheney
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014135637
2.
Court Won't Hear Siegelman, Scrushy Appeals
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1014135600
The Cheney one had a guy who touched Cheney, a pat. But, that's not why they arrested him. He spoke against the war.
The Don Siegelman case they needed to hide -- quietly. Let me see how much I can remember:
Don was governor, re-election certain he goes to bed, wakes up and ... the Republican won.
During bedtime, Republicans recounted a Republican area and found enough votes, ahem, to put themselves over the top and declared themselves the winners. No Democratic oversight, and they would not allow a recount. Sounds impossible! Get what happens next.
CBS 60-Minutes does a story. It airs. Somehow, in Alabama, that night, for 20-minutes -- dead air -- entire state. Ever hear of a TV station being off for 20-minutes, no sign, no music, just static? Not me. There was even an FCC investigation.
So far it's bad enough, but it gets worse.
Don's going to run again, so he's brought up on dozens of charges,... by Republicans in positions of power of course. One charge sticks because of a witness who claimed he saw the check. He was later discredited and the check it turns out was not even written until the day after he claimed to have seen it in hand coming out of Don's office.
The check was for Don's favorite charity, books for school kids. (Like there's a real grab-bag of loose money.. /sarcasm)
The guy did not even want the job. He'd been doing the same job for several years already. Don begged him to stay, not the other way around.
Think it could not get more ridiculously worse? Think again. It gets worse.
The Republican judge shackles Don immediately and sends Don from prison to prison even though there is going to be an appeal. (This to a prior governor?!)
Next, the transcript does not appear for weeks, then months. The transcriber dies.
Hey, is this enough for me to write for now?
When you look into it further and find the names involved and what connections they have and that nothing has happened to these people yet, you will wonder what happened to the United States of America.
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