Where Is the Real Ed Meese, and Why Are You Wearing His Clothes?

Tuesday, November 24th, 2009

Over at Hit & Run, I have a more detailed post looking at Ed Meese’s sudden interest in the rights of the accused.

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 4:39 pm by Radley Balko and is filed under General Criminal Justice. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

#1 | Bill Anderson | November 24th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
Your comments are spot on. One of the most unfortunate legacies of the Reagan administration is the acceleration of the Drug War, and Ed Meese was a prime mover. Furthermore, he did nothing to reign in the predations of Rudy Giuliani, and neither did Richard Thornburgh, who also seems to have had a “Road to Damascus” change.

It was Thornburgh who quipped “a brother for a brother” when Giuliani threatened to indict Michael Milken’s brother, Lowell, if Michael did not plead guilty to what the Supreme Court later said were not crimes at all. While I am glad to see these people coming around, I must admit that the time to respect the law is when one is in charge of enforcing it.

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#2 | SJE | November 24th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
I think that this is a 7 on the hack watch index

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#3 | Windy | November 25th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Well, for some reason the karma button are not functioning, so add one for Bill Anderson.

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