Of course, they’re too busy talking about Imass. All Imass, all the time……

I’ll say it again, I think this US Attorney firing scandal is going to snowball. Big time. I heard the appeals court judge in Chicago heard the attorney’s opening remarks. After the opening remarks, Ms. Thompson’s attorney was in his car driving back to Wisconsin. The judge, in the meantime, went through all the papers and documents. He had the attorney called and told to return to Chicago immediately and come back to the courtroom. When he arrived, the judge said this case was total bullshit, I want this woman released NOW. This woman lost her job, was falsely prosecuted, had to sell her home to pay legal fees, and spent 4 months in prison. I try not to hate, because it is a waste of energy, but I do hate the Bush administration and all the damage they’ve done. There’s no punishment great enough for these amoral, self serving assholes.

An April 11 article in The Washington Post on the House Judiciary Committee’s decision to subpoena hundreds of Justice Department documents related to the U.S. attorney firings noted that Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) has “joined other members in demanding records and additional information about a federal public corruption case” in Wisconsin. Regarding the case, the Post reported only that a federal appeals court in Chicago ordered a former state employee to be “released after overturning her conviction.” The article did not report that Georgia Thompson — who was not identified by name — was convicted on charges brought by a Bush-appointed U.S. attorney just before the 2006 election, that Wisconsin Republicans used her conviction to attack Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle (D) during the campaign, that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit took the highly unusual action of ordering the defendant released during oral argument because of the lack of evidence to support the conviction, and that Feingold and five other senators have requested information about the case to investigate whether “politics may have played an inappropriate role” in the prosecution.

Full article at Media Matters