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Entries for October 21st, 2003

Quicktakes

Oct.21, 2003 in Leave a Comment
  • Osama bin Laden: Who? Oh yeah, that guy responsible for 9/11. He’s still around?
  • Nathaniel Heatwole: They’re spinning the story this morning that getting box cutters on a plane is not that big of a deal because of all the other security precautions they have taken. They’re right. However, this does show that the illusion that we are “safer” than we were on 9/11 is just a mirage.
  • Jeb Bush: This is a classic illustration of be careful what you ask for… He says he doesn’t have the authority to put the tube back. The legislative branch in Florida is about to give it to him. The ball’s coming back to your court Governor.

    • Roy Moore Getting Desperate

    Oct.21, 2003 in Leave a Comment

    Roy’s attorneys know what they’re up against in Bill Pryor and the Attorney General’s office, so they’ve resorted to pathetically desperate measures,

    Lawyers for suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore alleged Monday that Attorney General Bill Pryor has a conflict of interest and asked the state Court of the Judiciary to disqualify him from prosecuting Moore on ethics charges.

    Moore’s lawyers said Pryor appointed outside lawyers Herb Titus and Steve Melchior to defend Moore’s displaying a Ten Commandments monument in the judicial building rotunda and now is prosecuting Moore for disobeying a federal court order to remove the monument.

    “The conflict of interest is apparent and the appearance of impropriety is overwhelming,” Moore attorneys Terry Butts, James Wilson and Michael Jones wrote in a motion to the Court of the Judiciary.

    They allege Pryor also has a personal conflict of interest because he has been nominated for a seat on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

    “Attorney General Pryor is stalled on the horns of … intertwined legal and political problems,” Moore’s lawyers wrote.

    If Pryor continues to handle the prosecution against Moore for the Judicial Inquiry Commission, “then he perhaps gains the support and vote of liberal Democrats in the United States Senate, who currently oppose the attorney general’s appointment as a judge on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals,” Moore’s lawyers wrote.

    Joy Patterson, a spokeswoman for Pryor, said the motion by Moore’s lawyers “is completely without merit, and we will oppose it vigorously.”

    Where is the confidence that Roy is going around the country speaking about? If he’s so confident he’s in the right, then why would it matter who is prosecuting him? If it’s so obvious that his position is correct, what difference does it make?

    The truth is, he knows there’s a potential for his case to be turned down by the Supreme Court and for him to lose his job within a matter of weeks. I guess that would make anyone desperate.

      

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