Morning Docket: 12.11.07
* Score one for judicial discretion in sentencing. [U.S. Supreme Court (PDF)]
* And another. [U.S. Supreme Court (PDF); New York Times]
* Receiving a gun in a trade for drugs is not “using” it. [U.S. Supreme Court (PDF)]
* Libby ditches his appeal. [Washington Post]
* New Jersey may soon have some spare machinery of death, if you’re in the market for some. [Newark Star-Ledger via How Appealing]
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so that raises the question - why am i so FIRSTY?
You know this blog is going downhill when a Merck post is like a breath of fresh air.
Libby dropped his appeal because he's guilty, guilty, guilty, and none of his cronies are in a position to help or protect him anymore. Might as well get it over with.
Enjoy the country club jail, Mr. Libby. Don't worry, they'll give you a right-wingnut radio talk show once you get out. Just ask G. Gordon.
write something interesting instead of reposting someone else's storys. It's finals time, so many law students will be checking your blog much more than usual. Step your game up SON.
i read all this crap yesterday.
Guys in my high school used to have Merck fill in for them the day after they sh*t the bed all the time, it was no big deal.
10:01 - The other path that Libby could follow would be to become a born-again Christian prison minister, a la Charles "Tex" Colson. But at least Colson had some real-life experience in that arena, since he, unlike Libby, actually did prison time; Nixon didn't have the balls to pardon anyone involved in Watergate, leaving that dirty work to Ford.
MERCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10:01, Libby isn't going to jail, country club or otherwise. Bush commuted his prison sentence...
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at least we have frat stud on here to break the interminable boredom. good one at 10:31.
Gallion OUT!
Way to keep up with the current events upon which you're commenting, 10:01 and 10:33.
10:47, fuck off. All I said is that Libby could become a born-again prison minister even though he has no prison experience. I never implied that Libby actually went to prison.
"Enjoy the country club jail, Mr. Libby." No implication of prison time?
And, um, forgot what time you posted, and implied that Nixon should've or politically could've pardoned everyone involved in Watergate, then resigned. Nice post.
so much h8ing going on today... this blawg has become poison!!!
NJ sucks, they havent executed anyone since 1963
Libby = AA appointed chief of staff. Of course he effed up.