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Court blocks Justice Department from reviewing seized files from Jefferson’s office
Via AP:
A federal appeals court on Friday barred the Justice Department from reviewing evidence seized from a Louisiana congressman’s office during an unprecedented FBI raid on his Capitol Hill office in May.
A three-judge panel ordered a federal trial judge to ensure that Democratic Rep. William Jefferson be given copies of seized evidence contained on more than a dozen computer hard drives, several floppy disks and two boxes of paper documents.
The panel said Jefferson then must be given the opportunity to invoke legislative privilege claims in private with the trial judge.
A reprieve for Rep. Jefferson. Let’s hope it’s only temporary.
Prior:
- Take that, Congress
- Jefferson stripped of seat on House Ways and Means Committee, cries racism
- ABC News poll: 86% favor FBI searching Congressional offices with a warrant
- More strange bedfellows in the Jefferson case
- Feds were ready to take a stand in Jefferson case
- Rep. Jefferson – the latest news
- Way to go, Republicans in Congress!
- New meaning to the term ‘cold hard cash’
- Ray Nagin wins again in New Orleans mayoral election (w/ news on Rep. Jefferson scandal)
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That figures, these three law makers, not what a judge is spose to do by the way, are just trying to give freezer jefferson some breathing room, ain’t that special.
What garbage!
Protect Jefferson at all cost, because he is one of the elite?
Sorry, there is nothing special about a trusted (stated quite lightly, mind you!) member of our government caught red handed!
He gets to make the plea as to what is covered by legislative privelege?
Hang onto that race card!
Johnny Cochran, you will be missed…
- A famous Black athelete slits the throats of two people and walks. A famous Black performer molests several youngsters and walks. One Black senator attacks a Capital policeman, ignoring the rules, and walks. Another Black Senator takes bribe money, stuffing his freezer with it, and gets special privaleges, possibly paving the way for dropping of all charges. Then there’s the case’s of Black Mayors in Washinton and New Orleans, who each had their own special brand of disasterous shananigans, and yet were considered “alright guys”.
- Is it just me or is there a pattern here?
- Bang