Which is odd, considering her background. Then I remember Kagan worked, with Rove, against Don Siegelman...
Siegelman Judge Asked To Recuse As Kagan, Rove Oppose Reviews
by Andrew Kreig
06/12/2010 05:12 am ET | Updated May 25, 2011
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Scrushy and Siegelman have argued that the judge must be disqualified after being enriched from $300 million in Bush-era contracts for his closely held company Doss Aviation to perform such work as refueling Air Force planes and training Air Force pilots.
"Quite simply, there is no valid reason for this Court's failure to dispose of this motion in
a timely fashion," wrote Scrushy's attorneys last week.
The former HealthSouth CEO's conviction is based on his donations to the Alabama Education Foundation in 1999 and 2000 at the request of then-governor Siegelman. In June 2007, Fuller ordered seven-year terms for defendants. The judge sent them immediately to prison in shackles with no appeal bond, and with solitary confinement initially for Siegelman that prevented any contact with his family and the news media.
A Republican former billionaire, Scrushy has argued that he was an innocent bystander caught up in a plan by the Bush Justice Department to eliminate the Democrat Siegelman from politics. His health care business collapsed early this decade amid complaints of fraud. But all of his criminal convictions were for the gifts to the foundation. "I'm the first person in history," Scrushy has said, "to be sent to prison for making a charitable donation."
SNIP...
$50 Billion In Air Force Contracts At Stake
Meanwhile, I reported last week that a factor prompting Siegelman's prosecution was the aim of some Republicans to seek contracts valued from $35 billion to $50 billion for Europe's multi-national consortium EADS and Northrop Grumman to build next-generation Air Force refueling tankers.
The EADS-led plan would replace Boeing Corp., the previous tanker builder. Years ago, EADS used competitive intelligence agents to show that Boeing had bribed an Air Force procurement officer. My column noted that an EADS victory would enable an assembly plant in Alabama, as advocated by four European heads of state, major global financiers and some U.S. politicians.
"The ring of truth in the article," Siegelman wrote me last week after publication and follow-up ,"is that Republicans wanted EADS, and I was close to Boeing because I had helped them expand their National Missile Defense Center in Huntsville and had them locate a manufacturing facility for the Delta IV and Delta II Rockets in Decatur, AL."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andrew-kreig/siegelman-judge-asked-to_b_534628.html
Thank you for grokking, JEB.
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