Random Politics & Religion #09

Law-abiding citizens are much much much less likely to discharge a weapon at anyone, much less anyone of differential race than they are, then anyone else.

There are more accidental killings by police officers than there are accidental killings by law-abiding citizens.

The state's attorney general was convicted Monday of all nine counts in a perjury and obstruction case related to a grand jury leak.

Attorney General Kathleen Kane showed little emotion as jurors announced their verdict late Monday. The jurors agreed the first-term Democrat leaked information about a 2009 grand jury probe to embarrass a rival prosecutor.

After the conviction, Pennsylvania's governor renewed his call for Kane to resign. Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf called it a "sad day" for Pennsylvania, adding, "There should be no question" that Kane, a fellow Democrat, should resign immediately.

In closing arguments, a lawyer for Kane blamed her former top aides for the leak of grand jury material, which found its way to a newspaper. Kane wanted the public to know her predecessor had failed to prosecute a case involving an NAACP official, but she never authorized the leak of secret criminal files, said her lawyer, Seth Farber.

Instead, he said, Kane's chief deputy, Adrian King, abused his power when he sent the files to a reporter through Kane's political consultant. King and the consultant, Josh Morrow, testified against Kane last week.

Morrow, who had a grant of immunity, said he and Kane devised a cover-up story that framed King for the leak. He acknowledged telling the lie to a grand jury.

"Those are two witnesses who will say whatever they need to in order to protect themselves," Farber said. "You would not even buy a used car from either one of them."

Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele noted, though, that Kane had chosen the men as confidants. Text messages and phone records show frequent interactions among them on key days in the prosecution's timeline: when the documents changed hands, when the Philadelphia Daily News article appeared and when a grand jury started to investigate the leak.

A top deputy told the jury he was alarmed when he saw the June 2014 article. He testified Kane told him it was no big deal.

"Who would say that other than the person that is responsible for it?" Steele asked.

The leak grew out of Kane's feud with former office prosecutor Frank Fina, he said. According to trial testimony, Kane believed Fina had planted a story that showed she had dropped a statehouse sting.

"She was just hell-bent on getting back at Frank Fina," Morrow testified last week, describing Kane as "unhinged" at the time.

Kane did not testify or call any defense witnesses after three days of prosecution evidence. The jury began deliberations Monday afternoon.

Kane, 50, was once a rising star in the state's Democratic Party, using her then-husband's trucking fortune to run for statewide office after stints as a Scranton prosecutor and a stay-at-home mother. But an early honeymoon period in office, when she spoke out for the legalization of gay marriage, was soon marred by turmoil as she sparred with officials inside and outside the office.

She staunchly described the charges as payback for her efforts to take on an "old-boys network" in state government that traded offensive, mildly pornographic emails. Her investigation led two state Supreme Court justices and others to resign.

However, the trial judge did not let her lawyers wade into that argument.

Public officials convicted of official misconduct in Pennsylvania typically don't have to resign until they are sentenced. Kane could stay in office while she appeals, the governor's office said.

Perjury, the only felony charged, can bring up to seven years in prison. The misdemeanor charges Kane faced included conspiracy, official oppression and false swearing.

Kane, the first Democrat and first woman elected to the office, lost her law license over the charges and did not seek re-election this year.

So...you're saying...disarm police and arm everyone else?

*takes the wrong lesson and runs with it*

But do real Seattleites still talk highly of Kurt Cobain whilst talking smack about Layne Staley despite endless similarities?

This story should have received more press on it, instead of automatically going to archives as soon as it was written...

Lawfare is a huge issue that's happening a lot lately. And it's mostly (not all, but a vast majority) used by democrats against Republicans.....

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There are more accidental killings by police officers than there are accidental killings by law-abiding citizens.

Also, in "combating lawfare" news:

Pennsylvanian Democrat Attorney General, Kathleen Kane, found guilty in committing lawfare against conservative opponents.

This story should have received more press on it, instead of automatically going to archives as soon as it was written...

Lawfare is a huge issue that's happening a lot lately. And it's mostly (not all, but a vast majority) used by democrats against Republicans.....

You can't really argue that the people she exposed didn't do anything wrong,

At the risk of repeating myself ...

Also, in "combating lawfare" news:

Pennsylvanian Democrat Attorney General, Kathleen Kane, found guilty in committing lawfare against conservative opponents.


This story should have received more press on it, instead of automatically going to archives as soon as it was written...

Lawfare is a huge issue that's happening a lot lately. And it's mostly (not all, but a vast majority) used by democrats against Republicans.....

It's on the front page of CNN this morning so yeah...

Are you going to say that the "John Doe" investigations on Scott Walker and various conservative leaders in Wisconsin by John Chisholm wasn't lawfare at it's core?

This is just another example of the growing popularity of using legal means to intimidate political opponents into submission. I'm not saying that this is a sole democrat practice, but I cannot find a Republican using this. I'm sure you will though (from snopes or Mother Jones, most likely)

Lawfare is a huge issue that's happening a lot lately. And it's mostly (not all, but a vast majority) used by democrats against Republicans....

The article did not state that.

What did the people who she revealed information to embarrass them do wrong?

Your statement, you defend it.

Wait. Have you actually look at the exhibits of what they were sending/talking about on the public time/dime?

It's really inappropriate for workplace discussion unless you work in the adult entertainment industry, and it's certainly not acceptable for a public official...

Sorry, I didn't follow the case at all.

I just found out about it on today's archive search.

This story should have received more press on it, instead of automatically going to archives as soon as it was written...

Lawfare is a huge issue that's happening a lot lately. And it's mostly (not all, but a vast majority) used by democrats against Republicans.....

Already in the archives on CBS.com this morning, so yeah...

Oh hey, that's who I quoted from. Not CNN.com, but CBS.com

Point being that it's out on the front page of other media outlets... Liberally biased ones... Not just hidden away like you claim... You claimed it should have received more press not just that cbs archived it... It is receiving press...

What happened with the PA AG is more newsworthy than what Trump had for breakfast this morning.

What if he ate a baby that wouldn't stop crying during his rally/

Don't say that, the media will turn it into a story.

It's not like they need evidence to print anything anymore.

Somewhat oddly, he would have endeared himself to me if he had kicked that screaming baby out.

Where's the part where she targeted Republicans?

It's in the secret part of the article that can only be read if you're paranoid delusional. try reading it again with this on...



see!? she's a demycrat so obviously she hates republicans and did things and stuff to them

I have no idea because I never really cared about anyone who has the time or inclination to actually waste their life attending a politician's rally.

Sounds like a good place to pick up crazy women.