April Fool's Day already topped by real news.

[tzikeh]

Wouldn't it be nice if this were an April Fool's joke?

The Justice Department drops the case against ex-Alaskan Senator Ted Stevens.

It isn't.

At least ThinkGeek is gettin' their April Fool's on.

Comments

[aerynvala.livejournal.com]

god damn it

[phoenix64.livejournal.com]

Well now we know why Bush didn't bother with the pardon.

[brak666.livejournal.com]

Oh, squeeze bacon. If only it were true.

[reginagiraffe]

I WOULD BUY SQUEEZE BACON!

[grace-om.livejournal.com]

This smells of deliberate de-railing of the case by Bush justice dept hires. Or pure incompetence. Either way, Holder better investigate *grrrrr*

[justacat.livejournal.com]

If you knew what actually happened in that case, you might revise your opinion of this. The media greatly exaggerated the case against him - as, for that matter, did the government. But regardless of what I, or anyone, thinks of Ted Stevens, the trial was one of the worst legal travesties I've heard of, and the behavior of the government was reprehensible and blatantly unethical. No justice was served by that verdict, and the government grossly abused its power; there was a motion pending with the judge to dismiss the verdict because of these abuses, and if he hadn't, the issues certainly would have been raised on appeal. But it appears that possibly someone in the new justice department apparently actually cares about ethics and the integrity of the justice system and did the right thing first, which might be a sign of a refreshing change.

[grace-om.livejournal.com]

Do you have any thoughts on *why* the Bush justice department would have brought a case like this against Stevens, of all people? What you said here is supported by the NY times article and the comments coming from Holder, but I'm just mystified as to why they would have gone after a senior Republican senator with such a vengeance.

[justacat.livejournal.com]

Good question, and I don't have an answer... I do, however, have the full version of this morning's public press release from the defense counsel, Williams & Connolly, if anyone's sufficiently interested!

[elynross.livejournal.com]

This is the sense I got from the NYT article; people on both sides of the political fence seemed to feel this was the only ethical decision possible.

[the-star-fish.livejournal.com]

You missed one.