FreeDon Siegelman Sunday

Former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman is arguably America’s most high-profile  political prisoner

 

Why is former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman in jail?  I mean, really? Why is it OK for republicans to shut down the government (except for the military industrial complex) unless President Obama delays and defunds a law that was passed by congress, signed into to law, and upheld by the United States Supreme Court, but it is against the law for former Governor Don Siegelman to appoint a campaign contributor to a board?

In 2009, a bipartisan amicus brief by 91 former state attorneys general urged the Supreme Court to use Siegelman’s case to enunciate a clear standard for establishing quid pro quo bribery. Today’s confusion and the resulting prosecutorial discretion chill the exercise of constitutional rights of political participation and can imprison people unjustly.~George Will

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