The Wheel Spins
Oct 17th, 2005 at 11:35 am by Susie
Billmon and I are on the same track, because I was just thinking about this:
I’m guessing that this time we won’t hear a lot of Republicans harrumphing about the fact that “no man is above the law.”
In an interview yesterday, Wilson said that once the criminal questions are settled, he and his wife may file a civil lawsuit against Bush, Cheney and others seeking damages for the alleged harm done to Plame’s career.
If they do so, the current state of the law makes it likely that the suit will be allowed to proceed — and Bush and Cheney will face questioning under oath — while they are in office. The reason for that is a unanimous 1997 U.S. Supreme Court decision ruling that Paula Jones’ sexual harassment suit against then-President Bill Clinton could go forward immediately, a decision that was hailed by conservatives at the time.
The real question is: What “good for one use only” legal doctrine will Roberts, Miers, Scalia and Thomas adopt this time?
Cheney and Plame
CHENEY AND PLAME….Today’s Washington Post story about Dick Cheney being a target of the Valerie Plame probe turns out to have no actual information about Cheney being a target of the Valerie Plame probe. In fact, it quotes a former…
Laertes: Why, as a woodcock to mine own springe, Osric.
I am justly kill’d with mine own treachery.
And I will be so sorry…
A Plame Duck?
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