WASHINGTON, D.C. — Elliot Mintzberg, chief counsel for oversight investigations of the House Judiciary Committee, answered direct questions from Glynn Wilson, Editor and Publisher of The Locust Fork News-Journal, last Friday at a press conference on corruption in the U.S. justice system. He refused to give a date for former Bush political aide Karl Rove’s interview, but he insisted it would be under oath, subject to perjury and transcribed for public release, and could possibly lead to public hearings — as we reported the other day in the news feature Political Justice Under the Spotlight in Washington.
Agricultural Commissioner Ron Sparks, the Democrat from Fort Payne, said he will push for an education lottery if elected governor of Alabama in 2010.
Sparks made the blockbuster announcement in a news conference in Montgomery on Thursday. His plan also calls for taxing and regulating all gambling operations across the state, as well as college and technical school scholarships for every child in Alabama.
In the announcement at his Montgomery headquarters, Sparks said too many Alabama high school graduates do not attend college or trade schools simply because they can’t afford it.
“Higher education is just a dream that costs too much,” Sparks said.
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During the Bush years, we specialized in covering the politicization of the U.S. justice system as much as any news organization. Our archives are about the most comprehensive for anyone researching the prosecution of former Alabama Gov. Don Siegelman, and the original case against Richard Scrushy, which Glynn Wilson covered for The New York Times.
