MAL Contends . . .: Richard Posner Hits Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors

Jan 29, 2014

Richard Posner Hits Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors

The Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit's Richard Posner hit prosecutors who violate defendants' rights in an important case just out.

The case is Fields v. Wharrie, 2014 U.S. App. LEXIS 1333.

Jonathan Turley has the scoop.

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Presidential Election 2016

- Presidential Debates, 2016
- VoteCastr plans unprecedented release of real-time, breaking Election Day projections and exit poll data on presidential and Senate races in Colorado, Florida, Nevada, New Hampshire, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. VoteCastr plans to publish a map and tables of its projected results in Slate magazine. VoteCastr writes, "For the first time in the modern political era, Americans will see what the network executives and campaign insiders have seen all along: the game as it unfolds."
- 270 to Win
- 538.com
- 2016 Election Calendar
- Wisconsin Elections Commission (WEC)
- Whitford v. Nichol, (District Court (Case 3:15-cv-00421)) (2015 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 155022 (W.D. Wis., Nov. 17, 2015)), is a federal case at trial from May 23-27, challenging the constitutionality of Wisconsin's Republican-drawn legislative-redistricting scheme
- One Wisconsin Institute v. Thomsen (U.S. District Court of the Western District of Wisconsin (Case 15-cv-324))
- Frank v. Walker
- Since 2011 Wisconsin Republicans have made some 34 changes to Wisconsin election law to keep Republicans in political power (Katelyn Ferral, The Capital Times)

Reward - $10,000 for info leading to the arrest and conviction in 1994 killing of Sarah Gonstead

On Scott Walker's Gang Stealing from Veterans

Wisconsin John Doe I (2010-2013) DA: Scott Walker's Stonewalling and Stalling Caused John Doe Probe

"Milwaukee County prosecutors opened the secret John Doe criminal investigation more than two years ago after being stonewalled by Gov. Scott Walker's office when he was county executive, according to a newly released record."

"The document appears to cast doubt on some of Walker's claims about his role in launching and cooperating with the investigation.

"On May 5, 2010, Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf filed a petition with court officials asking if his office could initiate a secret investigation into what happened with $11,000 in donations intended for Operation Freedom, an annual event honoring veterans.

By making it a secret John Doe investigation, Landgraf wrote that prosecutors might get better cooperation from Walker's office, which had been "unwilling or unable" to turn over records and information needed in the investigation. He said he would need to subpoena county records and officials.

(Dan Bice. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel. May 31, 2012)

Wisconsin John Doe II

Wisconsin John Doe II - "Sources familiar with the probe told the Journal Sentinel that it was scrutinizing a wide variety of state-related issues, including the recall races. Sources suggested the probe is looking at a current legislative leader and the governor's contest." (Bice. MJS; Oct. 21, 2013)

"Sources said the investigation is following up on a number of leads turned up by an earlier John Doe probe, which was led by Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm into the former and current aides of Gov. Scott Walker during his time as Milwaukee County executive."

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Law enforcement probe ended by a corrupt Wisconsin Supreme Court in July 2015.

Paul Ryan and his Ayn Rand-worshipping colleagues are after your Social Security and Medicare

"I left as an act of rational self-interest. Having gutted private-sector pensions and health benefits as a result of their embrace of outsourcing, union busting and 'shareholder value' the GOP now thinks it is only fair that public-sector workers give up their pensions and benefits, too. Hence the intensification of the GOP's decades-long campaign of scorn against government workers. Under the circumstances, it is simply safer to be a current retiree rather than a prospective one. If you think Paul Ryan and his Ayn Rand-worshipping colleagues aren't after your Social Security and Medicare, I am here to disabuse you of your naiveté. They will move heaven and earth to force through tax cuts that will so starve the government of revenue that they will be 'forced' to make 'hard choices' - and that doesn't mean repealing those very same tax cuts, it means cutting the benefits for which you worked."

- Mike Lofgren, who retired on June 17 after 28 years as a Republican Congressional staffer. TruthOut, Saturday September 3, 2011

Scott Walker—Frontman for Rightwingers

RNC Chair Reince Priebus on the Koch brothers and radical righwingers rallying behind Scott Walker in 2007:

"The simplest way I can tell you is we had total and complete unity between the state party, quite frankly, Americans for Prosperity, the Tea Party groups, the Grandsons of Liberty. The [Glenn Beck-instigated] 9/12ers were involved. It was a total and complete agreement that nobody cared who got the credit, that everyone was going to run down the tracks together..." ...

Koch-backed group’s Wisconsin efforts, [propelling Walker's] victory 'started back in 2007' on the shores of Lake Michigan.
- Eidelson, Salon

Bertrand Russell

"Those whose lives are fruitful to themselves, totheir friends, or to the world are inspired by hope and sustained by joy: they see in imagination the things that might be and the way in which they are to be brought into existence. In their private relations they are not pre-occupied with anxiety lest they should lose such affection and respect as they receive: they are engaged in giving affection and respect freely, and the reward comes ofitself without their seeking. In their work they are not haunted by jealousy of competitors, but concerned with the actual matter that has to be done. In politics, they do not spend time and passion defending unjust privileges of their class or nation, but they aim at making the world as a whole happier, less cruel, less full of conflict between rival greeds, and more full of human beings whose growth has not been dwarfed and stunted by oppression."

- Bertrand Russell
Proposed Roads To Freedom
(1918, Cornwall Press, Inc, Cornwall NY)

Jan 29, 2014

Richard Posner Hits Absolute Immunity for Prosecutors

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