Remembering Don Eugene Siegelman - he's still in jail

[samsingh]

I keep hoping that Don Eugene Siegelman gets a Presidential pardon.

Please keep this hope alive.

Why hasn't he been pardoned?

[DJ13]

1. Why hasn't he been pardoned?

I'll take 'because he's not a Republican' for $200 Alex.

[mopinko]

8. i'll take impeachment bait for $1000 alex

i agree completely in principle, but......

[Blue Owl]

2. And Karl Rove is still a free-range Hamboy

n/t

[geardaddy]

3. +1

[samsingh]

12. disgusting

[Bonx]

4. Is the Obama admin currently pursuing his release ?

[former9thward]

10. How can they pursue his release?

It was Elena Kagan who led the effort to keep him in prison when she was Obama's solicitor general. She was then rewarded with a Supreme Court nomination. It would look bad on her if they pardoned him now.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/06/30/880565/-Inaction-On-Siegelman-Case-Earns-Thumbs-Down-for-Kagan#

[OnyxCollie]

11. Ding! Ding! Ding! We have a winner! nt

[90-percent]

5. America is real good at law and order

https://www.facebook.com/DefendJohnKiriakou

Or locking up political prisoners who get jailed for fulfilling their Oath's to uphold the constitution.

Put Bradley Manning on the list, too.

We have over 2 million in jail don't we? Forgive me if I left somebody out that should be on this list.

-90% Jimmy

[raging moderate]

6. FREE DON SIEGELMAN.

Everybody email the White House.

[sabrina 1]

7. He doesn't need a pardon as he did nothing wrong, even Republicans agree this

was a political witch hunt. And we know who is responsible, KARL ROVE who still walks free although it's hard for him to appear anywhere in public without being reminded of his crimes against the people of this country, and others.

It is simply SHAMEFUL that Democrats have not stood up for this good Democrat and allowed a horrific injustice to go unpunished.

Thank you for the reminder. We should all post about this on a regular basis.

Siegelman stood up for us when he was able to do so. I remember him calling out Bush/Cheney when he was Governor, on the stolen election of 2000. Clearly he was targeted to silence him, and his own party has done little to end this injustice.

[samsingh]

9. kick