Biskupic Leaving in Disgrace

Stephen Biskupic, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Wisconsin (2002 - present) has announced that he is resigning in January before the new administration takes office.

Good riddance, though Biskupic allowed that he has amassed a good "track record."

Many Wisconsin Democrats and allies would agree with that positive performance assessment.

But I doubt that Biskupic is sending a Christmas card to the proven-innocent Georgia Thompson this year [see also Biskupic tried to 'squeeze' Georgia Thompson, and Investigate Biskupic].

As Biskupic has played the partisan prosecutor for the Republican "voter fraud" myth during his tenure, one wonders how seriously Biskupic reflects on the several overturned voter fraud cases [see also Voter-Fraud Complaints by GOP Drove Dismissals].

Or how about that Vietnam-era veteran, Wisconsin Navy Airman Keith Roberts, [see also U.S. Attorneys Scandal–Milwaukee] who was convicted for receiving VA benefits after the national VA office launched a vendetta against Roberts for being a pain in their bureaucratic butt, as the VA followed the policy advice of the benefits-hostile American Enterprise Institute scholar, Dr. Sally Satel on benefits for Vietnam-era vets who as a group were not always enthusiastic about that particular bullshit war?

Some parting words for Biskupic from the late US Attorney General and Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson:

"Any prosecutor who risks his day-to-day professional name for fair dealing to build up statistics of success has a perverted sense of practical values, as well as defects of character. ... he can have no better asset than to have his profession recognize that his attitude toward those who feel his power has been dispassionate, reasonable and just."
- Attorney General Robert H. Jackson, April 1, 1940.

Biskupic fails miserably on that score of being reasonable and just.

Let's hope the next US Atty for the Eastern District amasses a better track record.

And if the US Dept of Justice ever again becomes as politicized and corrupt as it has under the Bush administration, the US Attys should leave the DOJ en masse with their integrity in tact and no judicial victims from corrupt prosecutions.