07 April 2009

Former Senator Ted Stevens: Conviction Thrown Out

The judge today threw out Sen. Stevens' conviction, and launched a criminal contempt investigation of the Justice Dept. attorneys in the case.

Uncle Ted has been vindicated, and it's not just a "technicality," as the AK Dimocrit party is asserting.

U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan said the misconduct was the most serious he has ever seen in nearly 25 years on the bench.

This confirms what many of us said during the trial: it was a deliberate put-up job, designed for a single purpose: to unseat Ted Stevens as the senior Republican in the U.S. Senate.

5 comments:

GUYK said...

Yeah, that is what it looks like to me...dirty politics as usual by the democrats.

Rev. Paul said...

Yeah - if the conviction had withstood an appeal, Ted would have gone to jail. Now the DoJ lawyers may go, instead.

Our friendly federal government at work.

joated said...

Well, it (the plan to get him out of the Senate) worked. You have to wonder just how many of those who have been sitting in the Senate for two or more terms could withstand the kind of scrutiny Stevens got.

Eric J. Burton said...

I think it is disgusting what happened and the DOJ lawyers need to pay for this. This was a which hunt.

Rev. Paul said...

Agreed. The really disgusting part is that the entire affair was during the Bush administration. But then, while a decent man personally, he was no conservative.