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Blagojevich Wants to Subpoena ObamaActually, this is a false deployment of Slublog's Flaming Blago-Skull. I am just posting it because I haven't had an excuse to in forever. I really don't have an excuse now, either, because this is pretty much a non-story. But damn it's funny. Ousted Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich has asked a federal judge subpoena the president to testify at his corruption trial. Let me just say it's unlikely the judge will grant the motion. Supposedly US presidents can be compelled to testify this way, but, after the Clinton debacle, I have a feeling judges are going to come up with reasons to not grant such motions. Even if the motion is granted, which it probably won't be, I doubt very much that Obama has much interesting to say. Or that he would say, even if he had something interesting to say. It strikes me as very unlikely he would have cared so much about this seat he'd be willing to engage in bribery. Note that that's not me saying I think he's a paragon of incorruptible virtue. Far from it. It's just that even serial liars are capable of making rational decisions about "What does this get me, and what could I lose?" I mean, I'm sure he'd break the law for something he cared about. Like healthcare. Or raising taxes. But getting his top pick for a Senate seat which would almost surely stay liberal Democrat no matter what he did? Surely he wasn't that invested in his particular successor to play footsie with bribery. I am sure there are a lot of overly-optimistic conservatives, always really hoping that this or that subpoena pans out, and I guess it's fine to hope like that, but the long history of this sort of thing suggests that nothing will come from it. I just want to caution against that; I remember when I was on that bandwagon myself, in the Clinton years, and was always hoping that this House panel would finally get to the truth. I wound up politically broken-hearted every six months. Except for the Lewinsky thing, and that didn't really pay off politically at all. Clinton stayed in office and the Democrats picked up seats. This is PR move by Blagojevich -- he and his wife are now on realty-tv shows every year, after all -- and some kind of attempt the pressure Democratic-connected prosecutors to avoid a big trial and give him a generous plea offer. Typical We'll put the system on trial! desperation. Thanks to Star Chamber Maid.
Defense lawyers in the case of Rod Blagojevich moved today to issue a trial subpoena to the President of the United States, asking for his testimony at this June's trial. Doesn't say what contradictory statements they have in mind. Note: Actually, Blago's brief does say what statements they have in mind -- but they're all redacted by the court. The only thing that you can tell from the unredacted parts is that Blagojevich is disputing whether the president had any representatives taking part in these "deals." They are specifically demanding Obama come to court to sit in the witness box, instead of being allowed to give videotaped testimony in a deposition, which reinforces my belief this is a motion intended to hassle the prosecution. Oh: Defense also says they haven't received any notes at all from Obama's two-hour interview with the FBI. That won't do -- the defense gets anything material. I can't see how it was material to interview Obama at all and yet the contents of that interview are immaterial to the defense's case. I imagine Blago's going for some kind of "everyone does it, this is the normally-accepted method of doing things in Chicago" defense, and Obama having a representative at these deal-making meetings would support that. Except I don't know if something illegal can be made legal just due to common practice. Everyone knows this is how things are done in Chicago -- but that's not a defense to a corruption charge. | Recent Comments
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