Thursday, December 24, 2009

Jane Orie Caught In A Tit-For-Tat Wringer?

If a Democratic prosecutor were to apply the Corbett public integrity prosecution standard to Republicans overlooked by the Corbett campaign public integrity prosecutors, it might look something like this . . . and be similarly unattractive.

UPDATE: Sen. Orie's lawyer has reached (or, at least, says he will reach) reflexively for the thermonuclear devices. If the current launch trajectory is maintained, every current elected official in Pennsylvania could be jailed by spring. (Or maybe not -- if all the prosecutors are behind bars, who would arrange the final convictions?)

UPPERDATE: If Law Claus was quoted accurately and meant what he said concerning his office's "zero tolerance" policy, he might wish to review this report . . . or this one . . . or this one . . . or this one, or . . . (If he likes his job, however, he might not.) But if a "zero tolerance" threshold is genuinely in place, the jeopardy zone might extend beyond current elected officials to include former elected officials.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Thank you for pointing this out, it sometimes looks as if you only go after the Republicans and conservatives, and hands off all the Democrats. So thanks