Jefferson: Probe Won't Force Resignation

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/22/06 | Mary Dalrymple - ap

[Spktyr]

Ah, the *real* culture of corruption... Dems!

[NormsRevenge]

So I like to have a little cold cash on hand, what's wrong with that?

Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., makes a statement upon his arrival at Washington's National Airport, Monday, May 22, 2006. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

[Kenny Bunkport]

One rule for Republicans, another for Democrats.

[Txsleuth]

Aren't the Congresscritters always saying that "Bush isn't above the law"??

Well, if Bush isn't, they aren't....and I, for one, don't want my tax dollars paying Congresscritters, knowing that they can be hiding anything in their offices without fear of a WARRANTED search.

Hastert can stuff it!

[FlingWingFlyer]

How "courageous." Another nominee for the Kennedy's "Profiles In Courage" award.

[ncountylee]

Toss his family's digs. Jefferson, like Harry Reid, uses his family for cover,

[NYleatherneck]

And so, if Chewbacca is a wookie, you must acquit.

[NormsRevenge]

U.S. Rep. William Jefferson, D-New Orleans speaks to the media at a news conference in New Orleans on Monday May 15, 2006. Congressman Jefferson declared his innocence in light of a federal bribery probe.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

[razorback-bert]

Probe Won't Force Resignation

I was hoping for something anal.

[NormsRevenge]

Representative William Jefferson speaks at a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington September 15, 2005. A Kentucky businessman pleaded guilty on Wednesday to bribing Jefferson in an African Internet venture, the U.S. Justice Department said. (Chris Kleponis/Reuters)

[Defiant]

Abe Lincoln put congressmen in jail for treason. If a congressman's office is a crime scene, and if you have a warrant supported by probable cause, there is no privilege that applies to a congressional office. Once again, they seek rights that the rest of us don't have.

[VeniVidiVici]

Democrats don't resign. I believe it is in the Constitution somewhere.

[pawdoggie]

Hey, it's Ray Nagin's "Big Easy", Jefferson will run for Congress, and win going away. What was it that La. Governor, Edwards said, "They'd have to catch me in bed with a live boy or a dead girl"?

[Bubba_Leroy]

A Louisiana congressman under investigation for bribery said Monday he would not resign in the face of allegations that he was videotaped accepting $100,000 from an informant.

Good. The longer he fights resigning the harder it will be for the Democrats lackeys in the media to ignore it.

[jazusamo]

Hastert can stuff it!

You're right, he can stuff it. Just because Reps and Sens are elected officials, it doesn't give them immunity from criminal acts they commit.

[CFC__VRWC]

"Nothing I have learned in the last 48 hours leads me to believe that there was any necessity to change the precedent established over those 219 years," the Illinois Republican said in a statement.

Wassa matter, Denny, got a little squeeze of your own in the icebox of your office wet bar?

[Biblebelter]

I was channeling surfing tonight and ran across some guy named Beck on CNN Headline. He made some remark that Jefferson was the guy during Katrina who demanded the National Guard escort him to his home so that he could check his belongings. Or maybe this plunderer did not want his freezer looted by other looters.

[daybreakcoming]

Sooo...another Congressional perk. Law enforcement cannot search the sacred ground of their office even with a warrant. I wonder how many of them are now smuggling incriminating evidence out of their offices.....just in case. Would make a good political cartoon.

[siunevada]

House Speaker Dennis Hastert questioned whether the raid of the congressman's office, believed the first in history, overstepped constitutional limitations on executive powers.

Since they were working with a search warrant, maybe he'd better take it up with the judicial branch.

Concealing evidence of a crime is a constitutionally protected activity? I don't think so.