Scooter Libby just filed an emergency appeal to hold off serving time.

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Just flashed on the ticker tape on MSNBC.

I hate this system of privilege.

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. I'll Go Out On A Limb Here....

The heavily repub Appeals Court is going to find some "made up" grounds to overturn Judge Walton's order.

And I fully realize that Walton is also a repub, but he's a repub with some integrity, and knowledge of the legal system.

I predict the repubs on the Appeals Court are much like the Supremes in '00.....BOUGHT & PAID FOR! I bet the WH has got them covered, but I hope that I'm completely wrong.

[Rageneau]

18. Libby will win on appeal -- because Republicans have no honor.

The chief judge of the appeals court hearing Libby's case is Lawrence Silberberg, the rightest of right-wing nuts. Silberberg and David Sentelle were the two judges in the famous 'three-judge panel" that voted against Clinton on every legal issue he raised. Silberberg is as partisan a pig as prowls the pen, and is definitely not above violating his oath of office and his promise to uphold the Constitution in favor of getting one of his wingnut cronies out of a jam.

Of course, there's a CHANCE that Silberberg won't agree with Libby's lawayers. But IMHO, we can count on him to do what so many Republicans have done and will continue to do -- put partisanship above patriotism.

[lovuian]

19. I agree its going to appeals

So it will be interesting if they save him in appeals or not???

My guess is Libby will go to jail

[napi21]

20. As I understand it, the Circuit Court is in recess now. They will have to

assemble a special session of 3 of the judges on that court to hear the appeal. Last week someone posted that the 3 judges are chosen at random. I THINK 6 are Pubs & 4 are Dems, so the odds are IN FAVOR of having a majority of Pubs in that 3 judge panel, but it's not certain, nor does anyone know which ones it will be.

I'm keeping my fingers crossed that the Circuit Court judges have more allegiance to a fellow judge than they do to a political hack, but we'll see.

[dysfunctional press]

21. "chosen at random..." with THIS crew...? riiiiight....

pull the other one, and it plays 'jingle bells'.

[napi21]

25. Yea I know, I thought of that too, but I also thought about the

judges being in recess, on vacation sort of, and how many of they REALLY want to go back for a special session for some crackpot? Political or not, they're still "people" and most people don't like to give up their time off! I thought that was one of the reasons the special session judges were actually chosen at random so nobody would be picked on.

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26. This is just, horrible, horrible, horrible.

God, I'm beginning to hate these right-wingers.

[bananarepublican]

29. Perhaps if they let Scooter share a cell with Paris he'll drop his appeal? n/t

[napi21]

2. I actually thought they did that last week, right after the judge

made his ruling. Maybe it takes that long to put together the formal request.

This was certainly expected and we just need to see what the DC Circuit will say.

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3. This is all timed. They gave us a week to feel like we won something,

then as of last night and this morning, the media was spreading the meme that Libby should get his sentence commuted. IT would be less divisive to the country. If we don't make a fuss, they're going to get away with it.

I just want to know, who do we write to, to show that only a tight group of insiders want to protect Libby. His family, and the people he might turn in if he serves time.

[Crabby Appleton]

10. You are correct about it being expected, his lawyers said they

were going to file it when the judge said he would not remain free while waiting for appeals to be exhausted.

[BuyingThyme]

4. Emergency appeal?

What comes after emergency appeal?

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. A signing statement?

[mmonk]

8. Jail.

[TwilightGardener]

5. I guess he's not quite ready to be his cellmate's bitch. Too bad, so sad.

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9. If Libby serves time, he can commute his own sentence through a plea

bargain. If he turns in Dick Cheney, I'll be the first to plea for mercy for Libby. But let him earn it like an average American. Not like a privileged one.

[TwilightGardener]

12. Yep--if he nails Cheney, I'll go to the jail and drive him home myself, in a limo.

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13. I'll bring confetti and wait along the parade route.

[brentspeak]

6. A scene I'd to see:

"Come out from under the bed, Mr.Libby; you're just delaying the inevitable. There's a whole day of booking procedures and entrance paperwork ahead of you. Please don't make this any harder than it should be."

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11. I can hear him whining, "It's not fair!" and calling for his mommy, the

way that Paris Hilton did.

Heck, it looks like Martha Stewart and Paris Hilton have more cojones than these Republican men.

[Ghost in the Machine]

22. Yeah, but will they televise it like they did Paris Hilton??

Thats the real question...

[marions ghost]

14. so typical

we'll see if the hail mary works

[GeorgeGist]

15. What'd ya think Scooby ...

would do? Go to Jail?

[H2O Man]

16. The appeal:

Here is a link to the 122-page appeal:

http://www.robbinsrussell.com/pdf/390.pdf#http://www.robbinsrussell.com/pdf/390.pdf

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17. Hmm...he wasn't allowed to call in Andrea Mitchell?

What would she have said? She just threw Bandar Bush under a bus, why not Libby?

[Rex]

23. I wonder, how many 'poor scooter' friends does he have?

Crying like a baby, poor scooter, I da wanna go to jail, boo hoo! Mean old justice system! Waaaa...

:nopity:

[Morning Dew]

24. Probably an appeal to El-Rushbo

Scooter Libby lied to Fitz
Now They're sending him to jail
Won't you please come to Washington
Just to speak

In a country run by Cheney
How can such a thing be fair
Won't you please come to Washington
For the help that you can bring. . .

to the tune of CSNY's "Chicago"

[radfringe]

27. WP STORY: Libby Files Appeal to Delay Prison

Libby Files Appeal to Delay Prison
Associated Press
Wednesday, June 20, 2007; Page A04
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/19/AR2007061902037.html

Former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who faces prison soon in the CIA leak case, asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to delay his serving of the sentence.

--snip--

The Bureau of Prisons will shortly designate a prison facility and direct Libby to report within a period of two to three weeks after designation," his attorneys wrote. "Accordingly, we respectfully ask that the court expedite action on this application."

A delay in the sentence would give President Bush more time to consider whether to pardon Libby, who also served as an assistant to the president. Libby's supporters have called for a pardon, saying Libby was not the source of any leak and got caught up in a political investigation.

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28. Thanks, radfringe!

Hope you posted in its own thread so it gets a chance to make the greatest page.