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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
...Someone thinks enough of it to bring charges of corruption...
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And that's the part where the appeals court said there was no evidence.
Do you have any idea how hard it is to get a federal appeals court to reverse a criminal conviction for lack of evidence?
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If said Governor was a Republican, there is no doubt whatsoever that Ty would be posting 18 links to Crooked Timber about the "government for sale", Wonk would nearly pop an artery bellowing "assholes" at the top of his lungs, Shifter would suggest the whole lot of them be "tortured", and I'd sit back and laugh at the daily hypocricy of all of you.
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You keep thinking I bitch about this Halliburton stuff, and every time you say it you are still wrong.
eta: If there were any evidence that the defendant in question did something wrong, then she should go away for a long time. But the fact that a donor gets a contract does not show corruption. Government contractors have First Amendment rights too.