The game is rigged. Why Libby will walk on appeal.

[Dr.Phool]

They've been setting up the appeals courts for years. We are screwn. It's gotten to the point where the only thing that will save this country is a complete upheaval. We're not going to be saved by Nancy or Harry. Or Hillary or Al. It's gotten waaaay beyond that.

The chimp said before his first coronation that he wouldn't submit judges to the American Bar Assn. for approval, but instead would rely on The Federalist Society. Nobody paid any attention to him then, but look at the bench now.

Take a look at just a part of the playing field.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/conservative-movement-sle_b_51455.html


Atrios links to Digby, who writes that the appeals court is likely to reverse Scooter Libby's conviction because the particular judges are Federalist Society activists who have been working behind the scenes for years to reverse convictions of conservative movement operatives like Oliver North, while bending the law as far as possible to enable political investigations of Democrats like Bill Clinton.



And it does go back. Digby quotes from Robery Parry, writing about what Iran/Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh found himself up against - facing some of these same judges.

Walsh recognized that many of the appeals judges held a "continuing political allegiance" to the conservative Federalist Society, an organization dedicated to purging liberalism from the federal courts.

"It reminded me of the communist front groups of the 1940s and 1950s, whose members were committed to the communist cause and subject to communist direction but were not card-carrying members of the Communist Party," Walsh wrote.

Atrios calls it a "conservative protection racket."

And now we know from the Justice Department probe that these operatives are in place throughout the government - "sleeper cells" waiting to jump out and sabotage any attempt at actual positive governance. Digby writes,

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