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Durbin 'stunned' by Blagojevich news
The Swampby James Oliphant The senior senator from Illinois, Richard Durbin, said Tuesday he had no indication that Gov. Rod Blagojevich was on the verge of being indicted or that he was attempting to leverage his power to appoint the state's......Tags: Parliament, Dick Durbin, Punishment, Local Elections, Crime, Law and Justice
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Illinois Gov. Blagojevich arrested
The Swampby Frank James So do you still get to pick the Senate replacement for President-elect Barack Obama if you've been arrested on federal corruption charges as Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich was today? Some pretty stunning allegations are being made by......Tags: Punishment, Local Elections, Dan Walker, Crime, Law and Justice, Wrigley Field
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Illinois most corrupt? Try 18th on list
The Swampby Frank James It's hard to lose a bad reputation, especially when it's well deserved. And Chicago and Illinois politicians certainly have done enough over the decades, and in the past few days judging by the federal case against Gov.......Tags: Organized Crime, Chicago, Louisiana, Crime, Law and Justice, Barack Obama
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Bush: Edwards, Milken pardons denied
The Swampby Josh Meyer President George W. Bush, on his last full day in office, formally struck down the petitions for clemency of some high-profile politicians and businessmen, including convicted lawmakers Randall "Duke'' Cunningham, Edwin Edwards and Mario...Tags: California, Organized Crime, Durham (Durham, North Carolina), Louisiana, Trials
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Blago on Letterman: The (Partial) Transcript
The TV ZoneLadies, and gentlemen... Do you have an hour? You do! Good - then go to the jump and read a portion of tonight's "Late Show" grilling of Rod Blagovich...Best to watch rather than read...the whole thing is pretty funny,......Tags: Kansas, Christian Bale, Dan Walker, Trials, Regional Authority
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Blago fallout for IL Dems, Obama
The Swampby Mike Memoli Our friends at Clout Street note the timing of yesterday's verdict in the Rod Blagojevich trial, coming on the eve of Illinois Democrats' day at the state fair. Democrats are mindful of what happened to Republicans, who......Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Trials, Pat Quinn, Regional Authority, White House
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In Florida, a question of timely injustice
At great political peril, George Ryan did the right thing. Not to canonize the man. After all, the then-governor of Illinois was later imprisoned on corruption charges. But that doesn't change the fact that, in 2000, stung that 13 inmates had been...
Tags: Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Regional Authority, Politics, Government
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Harris: Patrick Fitzgerald offers lesson on complexities of terrorism law
Complex. Even messy. That's the reality of prosecuting terrorism cases, former U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald told his University of Chicago law school students at the outset of a recent class he taught with law firm colleague Michael Scudder. The...
Tags: Pakistan, Colleges and Universities, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Bank Robbery, New York City
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Free Renaldo Hudson? Mercy, yes!
Why should Illinois release Renaldo Hudson? After all, he committed a ghastly, unprovoked murder — stabbed a 72-year-old man some 60 times then set his victim's bed on fire to try to cover his tracks — and was on death row until 2003 when...Tags: Punishment, Crime, Law and Justice, Regional Authority, Pat Quinn, Prisons
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The illusory value of the death penalty
After deciding to pursue the execution of the man charged with fatally shooting 12 people in a Colorado movie theater last summer, the prosecutor declared that "for James Egan Holmes, justice is death." By that definition, he might have added, justice...
Tags: Punishment, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice, Colleges and Universities, Justice System
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In death penalty repeal, reason over revenge at long last
Many of us believe that capital punishment, first used in the Province of Maryland in 1638, should have been relegated to the trash heap long ago. Politicians in Annapolis had overwhelming evidence of its costly and debilitating flaws for many years,...
Tags: Elections, Punishment, Bill Clinton, Crime, Law and Justice, Prisons
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Gun laws are useless? That's all wet
Another collection of dispatches from Somebody Nobody Asked™, America's pre-eminent unsolicited advice columnist Dear gun rights advocates: I'm with you on the futility of municipal gun bans and other localized restrictions on the private...
Tags: Youth Organizations, Personal Weapon Control, Religion and Belief, Social Organizations, Interior Policy
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Mar 16, 2013
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Feb 3, 2013
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