Richard B. Schmitt in today’s Los Angeles Times notes that the politicalization of the U.S. Department of Justice is being felt in federal courtrooms around the country.“Defense lawyers in a growing number of cases are raising questions about the motives of government lawyers who have brought charges against their clients. In court papers, they are citing the furor over the U.S. attorney dismissals as evidence that their cases may have been infected by politics.”
That’s a good thing. Now, U.S. Attys are being forced to look over their shoulders.
Wisconsin’s own scandal-plagued US Atty Steven Biskupic (Eastern District of Wisconsin) may even steal a glance at whom he has stepped on—an innocent state worker, innocent voters, and an innocent Vietnam-era veteran.
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