Breaking: Libby verdict expected around noon (MORE – NRO SAYS “PARDON HIM”)
MSNBC is reporting it on their main page, but no story link just yet. There’s also a blurb about it on CNN’s main page has well:
The latest on the Libby trial jury deliberations
Byron York gets us up to speed, on day nine of jury deliberations in the Libby trial.
Giuliani on judges: Not encouraging
Ben Smith at The Politico reports on that site’s in-depth examination of Rudy Giuliani’s judicial appointees, which is an issue extremely important to conservatives whose votes he’d love to win. What was found is not encouraging (emphasis added):
Libby juror dismissed
Via AP:
Double standards in Duke rape cases
Back on the 12th, I blogged about a rape that allegedly happened to a Duke student at an off campus frat party, and noted an obvious double standard the media was employing, namely that they weren’t so quick to release the race of the accused unlike they were in the Duke lacrosse rape case drama, where they mentioned the race and ‘privileged backgrounds’ of the three accused lacrosse players as often as they possibly could. In my post, I noted that the accused in the incident that allegedly happened on the 11th was described in most media reports as “wearing a black do-rag, sweatshirt, and blue jeans.”
The latest on the Libby trial
Closing arguments were scheduled to be made today. Byron York at National Review has a rundown of the charges, the prosecution’s evidence, and speculates on what he thinks the outcome of the trial may be.