“Oh, Alabama … Your Cadillac has got a wheel in the ditch, and a wheel off the tracks…”
– Neil Young, Harvest, 1972

At least one Alabama newspaper, The Huntsville Times, is now calling for a Congressional investigation into the political prosecution of former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman.

“U.S. Rep. Artur Davis, a Birmingham Democrat, has every right to ask the House Judiciary Committee to look into the federal government’s prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman,” the paper says in an editorial today.

Huntsville Times Says Congress Should Investigate Siegelman Case

Here’s the AP story: Rep. Davis Asks for Judiciary Committee Investigationof Siegelman Case

Meanwhile, in another political miscarriage of justice, the feds in Montgomery will put former Secretary of State Nancy Worley on trial beginning today on weak charges that she violated election laws.

Former Alabama Secretary of State Nancy Worley’s Trial Set for Monday

And, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will visit Alabama on Monday for fundraisers designed to attract the average citizen.

Obama in Alabama Monday for Cheap Event

Also in a federal courtroom in Birmingham, in a civil trial set to begin today, union lawyers presented affidavits from two people who allege that Drummond Coal ordered two union leaders killed, a charge the company denies.

Drummond Coal in Birmingham Court

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