Political Law

I couldn't believe this article when I read it. However, when I searched the rest of the Internet for copies of the documents, I found them attached to this site. In looking at the numbers and conclusions, such as this page, there definitely seems to be some thing here. Given that this is the first analytical analysis of its type that I have seen, I may need some time to digest the information fully. However, the authors of the study are under no such restriction. Their comments: "As is indicated by Table 1, across the nation from 2001 through 2006 the Bush Justice Department investigated Democratic office holders and candidates at a rate more than four times greater (nearly 80% to 18%) than they investigated Republican office holders and seekers. This was so even though, throughout the nation, Democrat elected officials outnumber Republican elected officials at the rate of only 50% to 41%. Nine percent of elected officials are Independent/Other. We believe that this tremendous disparity is politically motivated and it occurs because the local (non-statewide and non-Congressional) investigations occur under the radar of a diligent national press. Each instance is treated by a local beat reporter as an isolated case that is only of local interest. The real Pulitizer Prize-winning story is the extent of the politicization of Justice Department investigations and/or indictments of local elected and office-seeking Democrats vis-a-vis their Republican counterparts across the nation. As Table 2b indicates, there is not a significant difference between the number of federal investigations of State-wide and federal elected officials and what would be expected given the representation of Democratic and Republican Office-holders in the population. We believe that because the investigations of state-wide and federal elected officials and candidates occurred within the radar of the national press, there was little room for nefarious, out-of-line investigations for political purposes on the part of the Bush Justice Department." If this is even partially true, Gonzales needs to be forcibly propelled to the unemployment line, with all of the shame and disrepute applicable to such a horrendous distortion of the legal system and the pretenses of American justice.