FYI: Same judge who railroaded Gov. Siegelman cleared Judge Cannon.

[Kid Berwyn]

11th Circuit Chief Judge William Pryor found "insufficient evidence" Judge Aileen Cannon tipped the scales in favor of Donald Trump in her "Special Master" ruling. Pryor is the same fellah who led the railroading of Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman.

Judge Dismisses Ethics Complaints Accusing Aileen Cannon of Bias in Trump Special Master Order

Chief Judge William Pryor said the allegations against Cannon lacked sufficient evidence.

Law.com, December 06, 2022

A federal judge dismissed a handful of ethics complaints that were filed against U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon over her handling of former President Donald Trump’s challenge to the seizure of documents from his Mar-a-Lago home.

The complaints filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit accuse Cannon of political bias in her decision to appoint a special master to review the seized documents, and claim she failed to base her order on sound legal reasoning.

SOURCE: https://www.law.com/nationallawjournal/2022/12/06/judge-dismisses-ethics-complaints-accusing-aileen-cannon-of-bias-in-trump-special-master-order/?slreturn=20230509121927

Ask Gov. Don Siegelman about Chief Judge William Pryor.

FEDERALISTS, BIG TOBACCO AND KARL ROVE: THE TIES THAT BIND

Political consultant Karl Rove helped his good friend, William Pryor, win the office of Alabama Attorney General in 1998. One of the many ties that bind Bill Pryor and Karl Rove was their opposition to Don Siegelman’s stance against Big Tobacco. Pryor and Rove both campaigned for “tort reform” which makes it very difficult to sue large corporations, like Rove’s client Phillip Morris, for injuries like tobacco related health problems.

While at Tulane University School of Law, a politically active Bill Pryor helped found the new conservative/libertarian Federalist Society chapter at Tulane (1984.) The Society was another strong tie for Rove and Pryor in that Bush/Rove selected most of their Judical appointments from the the Federalist Society i.e., Ashcroft, Thomas and Alito.

William Pryor rarely claims his primary accomplishment as Attorney General of Alabama; he was key to the investigation of his boss and Governor, Don Siegelman, behind the scenes becoming, along with Rove and others, an invisible hand guiding Alabama to become a Republican state through the partisan use of the judiciary.

In 2007, Time Magazine Investigations revealed sworn FBI testimony that landfill developer Lanny Young admitted to making sizable illegal donations to Pryor’s campaign for state attorney general. Despite Pryor’s own blatant violations of contribution law, he used his new position as attorney general to initiate a criminal investigation of Siegelman within weeks of Siegelman’s moving into the Governor’s mansion. This required burying the sworn testimony about his own (and fellow Republican’s) significant campaign financing irregularities and zooming in on Siegelman’s lesser irregularities and even inventing crimes to assign to Siegelman.

Pryor, notoriously eager to get a lifetime appointment on the federal bench, was nominated to the Eleventh Circuit by President George W. Bush on April 9, 2003 and after a long struggle overcoming objections to his conservative activism from the bench, he was confirmed and sworn to the bench on June 20, 2005 at the age of 43.

SOURCE: https://donsiegelman.org/portfolio-item/bill-pryor/

Bill Pryor also defended his clerk's right to be a racist.

https://www.law.com/2021/10/11/eleventh-circuit-chief-judge-isnt-talking-about-new-clerk-mired-in-controversy-over-racist-rant/

[Fullduplexxx]

1. But it's all random and by-chamce

[Kid Berwyn]

3. When the GOP stacks the deck...

...they use cards marked by the Federalist Society.

[Tommy Carcetti]

2. I seriously doubt Cannon's going to touch this case. nt

[Kid Berwyn]

4. My hope, too.

But if not, I bet Cannon think she's ready for prime time.

[misanthrope]

5. Another Mobile, Alabama connection to Trump world

Pryor is a native Mobilian. His mentor, Jeff Sessions, is a Mobilian. Trump's first big rally in his successful bid for POTUS was a stadium rally in Mobile, an event facilitated by Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson who was a longtime board member for one of the ruby-red state's most influential arch-conservative think tanks.

[Kid Berwyn]

6. Jeff Sessions, the Trump AG who recused himself from the Russia Russia Russia investigation.

Thank you for the heads-up, misanthrope. Something ain't right in the Alabama GOP.

Here's an Alabama GOP guy who never got the press he deserved.



There was the case in 2007 of the Assistant US Attorney from Florida who flew to Flint for sex with, he believed, a five year old.

US Attorney John David "Roy" Atchison was a pillar of the community, a family man, yet he wanted sex with a child.

The Strange Tale of a Pedophile in the U.S. Justice Department

Legal Schnauzer, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

The U.S. Department of Justice generated plenty of strange stories during the George W. Bush years. But one of the strangest involved John David "Roy" Atchison, an assistant U.S. attorney in Pensacola, Florida, who committed suicide after being caught in a pedophilia sting in Detroit.

Atchison's sad story has many connections to Birmingham and Alabama. And it raises this question: How did a guy with a shaky work record and a history of run-ins with the law get hired by the world's supposedly foremost crime-fighting organization? Did Atchison attain his lofty position because he had connections to powerful figures in the Alabama legal world?

Investigative journalist Margie Burns examines these questions, and much more, in a series of posts about the Atchison case at her blog, margieburns.com.

Burns begins with the actions that turned Atchison into a national figure in fall 2007:

This is not the story of a man who engaged in pedophilia for years or decades before being caught. It is the story of a man whipsawed by the strain of living up to a high-achieving family rooted in Birmingham, Ala., whose high-functioning connections assisted him for years in developing a career for which he turned out not to be suited. On Sept. 16, 2007, Assistant U.S. Attorney John David Roy Atchison, serving as a federal prosecutor in the Northern District of Florida, was arrested on credible charges of basically pedophilia. Atchison committed suicide in federal prison Oct. 5.

A dead pedophile might not sound like a tragedy. But Atchison was thought to be participating in a pedophile ring, and his death removed a useful informant from law enforcement resources. The question of how he was enabled to kill himself rather than being preserved for justice is one of the loose ends left hanging in his case.

CONTINUED 'though I wish it didn't...

http://legalschnauzer.blogspot.com/2010/09/strange-tale-of-pedophile-in-us-justice.html

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Margie Burns detailed how the guy rose up through the GOP ranks, warts and all. When former wife beating Judge Fuller and pedophile Atchison are given authority to put people behind bars on behalf of Uncle Sam, these are worse than NAZI times.

Just another lone nut child molester.

[misanthrope]

7. Not just me

Two Alabama-based columnists, Josh Moon and Pulitzer-winner Kyle Whitmire, repeatedly trumpeted warnings in 2016 that the U.S. was becoming "Alabamified" and the election of Trump was a huge step in that direction. Alabama contains good people, but there are even more who are so beaten down and strapped by their selfish, venal and hateful culture that they don't care about the open corruption that has been a hallmark of Alabama politics in the last centuries.

[Kid Berwyn]

8. Agree completely -- Alabama is filled with good people.

And thank you for the heads-u on Josh Moon and Kyle Whitmire. The central problem comes from those who think they are better than others -- entitled by birth or skin tone or socio-economic condition to rule.

I've followed the goings-on through Legal Schnauzer and Margie Burns. It seems that the Alabama GOPmob has done all it could to shut them both down.