Joe Miller, now officially Alaska’s Republican candidate for Senate, is another insurgent who fits into a pattern Jesse has identified of politicians shirking earmarks in the run-up to November’s election.
It’s a particularly surprising stance to take in Alaska, where the late Sen. Ted Stevens unabashedly brought home dollars More…
Former senator Ted Stevens died today in a plane crash in Alaska at the age of 86. And although he was always “very protective” of Alaska’s minimally regulated “aviation culture,” Felix Samon makes the case that the sad irony surrounding his death wouldn’t inspire any regrets in More…
Attorney General Eric Holder this afternoon named Mary Patrice Brown as the new head of the Office of Professional Responsibility, the Justice Department’s internal ethics unit.
The changing of the guard at the sensitive ethics office comes just after embarrassing revelations of federal attorney misconduct in the prosecution of More…
From The Hill:
The judge in the corruption trial against former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has filed criminal contempt charges against the team of government lawyers who prosecuted Stevens.
U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan scolded the prosecution in agreeing to dismiss charges against Stevens. “In nearly 25 years on
Gov. Sarah Palin’s (R-Alaska) tumble out of the serious 2012 presidential stakes continues as she asks for Alaska’s duly elected Democratic Sen. Mark Begich to resign, because the feds botched the case against former GOP Sen. Ted Stevens.
[Alaska GOP Chairman Randy Ruedrich] thought Begich should step
Attorney General Eric Holder won lots of praise today for asking a court to dismiss the indictment against convicted former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) based on allegations of prosecutorial misconduct, including from Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who said the decision shows that Holder is “committed to the More…
Politico reports an outrageous twist to the already-absurd tale of the prosecution of Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), convicted this fall on seven counts of federal bribery-related charges. This seemingly clear-cut corruption case, which was mangled from the get-go, now looks even worse.
The Anchorage Daily News reports that Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) asked President George W. Bush last month to pardon her former counterpart in the U.S. Senate, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), for his seven-count felony conviction of failing to list gifts worth $250,000 on his Senate disclosure forms. More…
Since former (man, it feels good to type that) Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) was convicted on seven felony corruption charges, there have been some serious twists in the case against the 85-year-old man known as “Uncle Ted” to Alaskans.
Just a few weeks ago, a whistleblower came forward reporting More…
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) tells Politico that he thinks former Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) — convicted on seven felony counts of failing to disclose gifts worth about $250,000 from an Alaska energy firm on his Senate disclosure forms — should not serve jail time.
Reid More…
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