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December 10, 2007

Overlawyered: Scruggs indictment VIII

Overlawyered, 12/10/7 A report in today’s New York Times advances the ball on a number of fronts: Per an unidentified official, “federal prosecutors have asked the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section to examine whether Mr. Scruggs has engaged in multiple bribery attempts of local judges.” The Times interviews Clarksdale, Miss. attorney Charles M. Merkel Jr.,…
News  |  Magnolia Tribune  • 
December 10, 2007

Senate appointment Barbour’s biggest clout yet

The Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal Editorial, 12/9/7 Haley Barbour has leveraged the relatively limited powers of the Mississippi governor’s office as no one before him through a combination of political skills and relentless drive. His legislative influence in the last term was without recent parallel. But in the long term, Barbour’s most momentous exercise of…