USSC didn't recognize corruption by Gov. Bob McDonnell. NOW FREE DON SIEGELMAN!

[no_hypocrisy]

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/supreme-court-overturns-bob-mcdonnells-corruption-convictions-224833?cmpid=sf

Gov. Siegelman didn't accept money for himself personally or for his political campaign.

Gov. Siegelman re-appointed Scrushy to a position he held for prior administrations and wanted to leave. The position paid no compensation for service.

No pro quid pro.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/as-mcdonnell-awaits-supreme-court-another-governor-watches-from-prison/2016/04/25/c8fa5828-097a-11e6-b283-e79d81c63c1b_story.html


FREE DON TODAY!!!

[Hiraeth]

1. Free Don Siegelman. K&R

[Octafish]

16. Is that a rhetorical question?

"Parallel Martyrdom" is a great phrase.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016139494#post31

[floriduck]

3. Why hasn't the President pardoned him? Doesn't make sense.

[yourpaljoey]

4. Actually, it makes perfect sense.

[floriduck]

5. Please explain. I'm not following your brief response.

[yeoman6987]

7. Presidents don't pardon until end of term.

[former9thward]

14. Presidents can pardon at any time.

Obama has released many federal prisoners who were drug offenders.

[yeoman6987]

18. That's true. I should have said typically.

[PoliticAverse]

26. Obama has already issued many pardons. See...

https://www.justice.gov/pardon/obama-pardons

[n2doc]

8. It's OK if you are a republican

[chapdrum]

9. The majority of SCOTUS likely

shares McDonnell's ethical judgment.

[Bonx]

11. Fwiw, this decision was unanimous.

[bjobotts]

21. Over 50 former US Attorneys signed onto a letter of how Siegleman was railroaded and to free him

I still don't understand why Obama hasn't pardoned him yet. Stevens (R) from Alaska got freed after his conviction which was proven guilty but not so with Don Siegleman. wwwfree.don.org to sign the petition etc.

[rhett o rick]

29. I think someone with a high pay scale than Obama wants the good governor to

suffer. Outspoken progressives are not wanted by TPTB.

[KT2000]

10. K & R !

[MohRokTah]

12. It's more likely today's decision will serve to free Rod Blagojevich. eom

[no_hypocrisy]

13. This article finds some basis in my argument.

http://www.vox.com/2016/6/27/11979780/supreme-court-governor-bob-mcdonnell

[MohRokTah]

17. I'm just speaking to the idiocy of how these things seem to work their way out.

If any conviceted politician deserves to do their complete sentence, it's Rod Blagojevich, but the way these things seem to always work themselves out, Blago will be released and Siegelman won't

[bjobotts]

22. It's based on jury instructions being faulty.

[Octafish]

15. Well, there is a difference.

McDonnell is a crook.

Siegelman is a political prisoner.

Associate Justice Elena Kagan understands the diff.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1016139494#post16

[bjobotts]

24. Exactly right Octafish. What's it gonna take to get Siegleman free.

[rhett o rick]

30. Many great progressives have been silenced one way or the other. nm

[Frances]

19. My very first thought was Gov. Siegelman

[Spitfire of ATJ]

23. Some of the Watergate guys got six months and Siegelman has been Rove's prisoner for,....LIFE?

[1939]

25. For the last seven years

He has been the prisoner of Pres Obama and AGs Holder and Lynch. Why did none of these three see fit to address the issue?

Is Karl Rove holding their children hostage?

[rhett o rick]

31. No TPTB don't like outspoken progressives. nm

[silvershadow]

27. K&R nt

[still_one]

28. I agree, though if it happens, and I hope it does, I suspect President Obama will do it as one of

his final acts as President

[libodem]

32. Kick and Recommend