It was nice to see Attorney General Eric Holder dismiss the indictment against former U.S. Senator Ted Stevens and not proceed with a new trial. I did not really get all that excited about the nice thing that Holder did. Heck, his side won the U.S. Senate seat so there was really no need to continue.
Politics do play a major role in our justice system. You can bet on it. It seems as though these types of campaign tactics are becoming the standard operating procedure for the democrats – and they have been successful – at least in 2006 and 2008.
On the other hand, if Stevens would have won, you could bet your house, car, and savings that Attorney General Holder would have continued with the case. Hopefully the U.S. Attorneys who misbehaved during the trial will be held accountable.
We’ll never know what the outcome would have been if there had been a fair trial for Stevens. I’d bet that Stevens would have easily won the election. One thing we know for sure is that newly-elected Senator Mark Begich can now sit back for the next six years and know that the only reason he won his race was because of that trial.
The Western Word 
Pogie: I believe the lead prosecutor in the Stevens case (Morris) was a career attorney with the USDOJ, working at the DoJ since 1991 and supervising around 30 other attorneys, so she served under at least four presidents: (Bush-42, Clinton, Bush-43, and now Obama)It’s very easy to say someone is corrupt, run a few campaign ads against them, even get an indictment against some, maybe win an election or two and then leave them dead along the political road, then say let’s move on. Thanks for stopping by. -Jack
Yup, that partisan Democratic Justice Department was really out to get Senator Stev—oh, wait.It’s pretty clear that Senator Stevens was corrupt, despite the behavior of the Republican-appointed prosecutor here. He deserved to lose the election. In a strange way, he’s lucky that the Bush Justice Department was filled with such an absurd collection of unethical hacks.