Not only is Leura Canary completely without ethics; she's such a poor Alabaman that she can't even spell "y'all."

This thing is probably the most disgusting of all RoveCo's conscienceless plots. To send a man to prison simply to take him off the political table . . . Jesus.

As a former prosecutor for a decade, you NEVER communicate with a jury in any way. If you happen to see a juror in public, a hallway, away from court and you even inadvertently say "hello" to them, you run to the judge and beg forgiveness.

You cannot even exchange courtesies! This is incredibly offensive, outrageous, and should result in discipline from both the state and federal bar associations for the attorneys involved.

"y,all" - Good thing a fine lady in Louisiana is working, today.

But, I eagerly await the US Marshall bringing Rove before the House Committee; so-called Exec Privilege be damned.

This thing is probably the most disgusting of all RoveCo's conscienceless plots.

Actually, it is only the most disgusting known Rove plots.

Marty, what could have created the atmosphere in the USA's office where so many attorneys could act so very unethically while everyone around them sits on their hands and lets it happen? This was not one or two rogue individuals. Besides White House and DOJ involvement, this was the entire USA office!

Somewhere along the line the entire federal justice system was destroyed and replaced by a political attack machine.

Tip, meet iceberg. I bet the shredders are running full tilt in the DOJ these days, but given the sheer volume of likely material I expect there will be some juicy scraps left over come Jan 20.

The Conyers memo is pretty damning.

I just saw Keith (on the prosecutor team) in the hall. The jurors kept sending our messages through the marshall. A couple of them want to know if he's married

Sounds like there was an extended conversation and it wasn't a secret within the prosecutor's office.

Makes one then ask how many other regulatory or oversight agencies of our government have been used for gross political gamesmanship or retribution in the past eight years? I'd bet a lot more than anyone has pondered. Maybe not as dangerously as the corruption of the Justice Dept and sending people to jail but potentially ruinous to people's careers and reputations nonetheless. I'd bet they trashed a whole lot of people. Because they could.

The Republicans used to be known as the Daddy party (to the Dems Mommy party). The party of Ward Cleaver is long gone. The GOP is now the party of the abusive, alcoholic stepdad from hell who also is behind on his child support while ranting to the everyone else about "responsibility". But it is all okay because he heartily claims to love Jesus.

Marty has it absolutely right. It is impossible to overstate how inappropriate ex parte communications between prosecutors and jurors are. That alone should be grounds for reversal (though perhaps on a habeas petition rather than direct appeal).

Kinda funny... Seigelman got away with a bunch of stuff he should have been convicted for and got convicted for stuff he didn't do. You can't call that justice but Seigelman really does belong in jail.

Yes, I'm from Alabama. No, I'm not a Republican. Voted for Obama same as you.

It's too bad the next administration is hand tied by such a clusterf*ck of a GOP economic/security/environmental mess. Otherwise, I'd say exposing and prosecuting these GOP dirtbags would be top priority.

Ex-parte communications with the JURY!

That's the big news. That's outrageous and enough to get her disbarred in most states.

I hope Siegelman's efforts to expose the politicization of the Justice Dept. are fruitful for him AND that they indirectly benefit the Scruggses as well. Yes, they pled guilty, under circumstances that included an elaborate frame, and a vindictive judge. Bush's appointees and Rove's minions have committed far worse breaches than have their targets.