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Somewhere, Marcia Clark is pouring prosecutors on the Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) case a drink.
NPR is reporting this morning that the Justice Department plans to drop what once looked like an open-and-shut case against the case against the longest-serving Republican senator in history.
Things looked bleak for Stevens when a federal indictment dropped in July. Prosecutors [...]

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.

My friend Lindsay Beyerstein celebrates the conviction of Sen. Ted Stevens by crafting a new crabcake recipe in his honor.
Lindsay’s probably a little too fake-America for Uncle Ted’s tastes — she’s using Japanese chili powder and cautions against using regular canned crabmeat, plus she even has a philosophy degree, so clearly she thinks she’s better [...]