AP: Judges Delay Investigation of Congressman (William Jefferson)

[Eugene]

Judges Delay Investigation of Congressman

By TONI LOCY
The Associated Press
Wednesday, July 26, 2006; 10:42 AM

WASHINGTON -- A federal appeals court on Wednesday temporarily delayed a Justice
Department bribery investigation of a Louisiana congressman while he challenges
the legality of an unprecedented FBI raid on his Capitol Hill office.

The decision by two members of a three-judge panel means the Justice Department
cannot begin a review set to begin Wednesday of more than a dozen computer hard
drives, several floppy discs and two boxes of documents seized during a May 20-21
raid on Democratic Rep. William Jefferson's Rayburn Building office.

"The purpose of this administrative injunction is to give the court sufficient
opportunity to consider the merits of the motion for a stay pending appeal and
should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,"
wrote Judges Janice Rogers Brown and Thomas B. Griffith of the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. The identity of the third judge is not known.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/26/AR2006072600622.html

[zbdent]

1. I hope that this precedent is used

to oust Dick ...

[MGKrebs]

2. So then, the DOJ would also demand the WH turn over the

Cheney energy task force papers, right? Apparently, the DOJ would be happy to provide copies of all the documents back to the WH so that they can object later to any of the information being used in an investigation.