Court: Raid on Jefferson legal
A federal judge in Washington ruled today that the FBI raid on Rep. William J. Jefferson's Rayburn House suite was constitutional, saying that barring searches of lawmakers' offices would turn Capitol Hill into "a taxpayer-subsidized sanctuary for crime."
You mean it's not already?
The problem is, most of the corruption you'll ever read about is when Democrats spend years and years trying to indict Republicans without evidence (see Rush Limbaugh and Tom Delay). And even when they can't convict, it'll be played up so large in the media the general public won't know the difference.
If it wasn't for Judge Hogan, Pelosi and crew would still be posturing with arrogance about this raid on one of their own. In fact, I find it odd that CNN is avoiding this story right now like the plague. You can only imagine the coverage had this been a Republican.
California Conservative touched on this not long ago with term called "situational journalism."
- In "situational journalism" coverage of Republican corruption feeds into the Democrat Party talking point of a "culture of corruption." In the coverage of Democrat corruption, the news media help the Democrats by putting the cops on trial instead of the crooked politician who stuffs his freezer with his ill-gotten gains alongside the Bird’s Eye frozen peas.
Sister Toldjah has more and JawsBlog asks an even more logical question...
- But doesn't the fact that there was a (legal) warrant issued for the search make the search legal as is?
It would seem so Jaws. But even Republicans were extolling some level of elitism. "The American people should be deeply concerned that a decision to conduct a raid on Congress was made consciously and evidently at high levels inside the Justice Department and the FBI," said former Rep. Bob Walker, R-Pa.
Face it Congress, you're not above the law!