I wonder what Jack Abramoff thinks about Tom DeLay winning his appeal of his 2010 conviction for money laundering. No one can say that The Hammer wasn’t inconvenienced during all this legal wrangling, nor can one deny that DeLay’s political career was ruined, but, unlike Mr. Abramoff, he didn’t serve four years in prison.
DeLay was reprimanded twice by the House Ethics Committee, and at least four of his associates were convicted of crimes ranging from bribery to money laundering to conspiracy. If DeLay got off lightly, somehow, Grover Norquist seems to have emerged completely unscathed from his role in setting up the K Street Project. Neither outcome seems right.
Of course our pilot in the hole McCain writes an op-ed in Pravda.ru – Russians Deserve Better Than Putin ‖ Op-ed.
McCain’s answer to Putin’s brazen op-ed in the New York Times recently.
Legal decisions often do not seem right according to moral judgment because, even at best, they focus on the question whether particular actions represent the violation of particular statutes, with precedent (where the legal situation is seen to be analogous even though the fact may be unrelated) making the whole matter even more abstract.
to put it more briefly, courts are about the law, not about justice.
Right.
More accurately, they are about legal justice not moral justice.
Don’t forget that at least one Texas justice that voted to overturn The Bugman’s conviction has a serious conflict of interest.
Judges are elected in Texas and I understand that all the judges in this decision were Republicans.