Sorry Wolfstar but you are late to this game and you didn't do your homework or "understand the entire set of facts before you jumped to the conclusion that our Congressmen were jumping off a bridge on this one.
Yes, it is very unusual for the trial transcripts not to be available a year later. No, the court reporter has no known illness. Yes, something was sealed. It was the record of the illegal that was shot at. The jury members have come out an said they were led to believe they had to have a unanimous vote, no hung jury allowed. Lots of shady things went on in this trial which makes an appeal with a good outcome suspicious too. That chance is better since Hunter, Rohrbacher, Poe, and Tancredo have gotten light on this.
1. Don't be "sorry." I know enough to be concerned that, once again, "real" conservatives are willing to toss the Constitution overboard when it suits their purposes.
2. Again, if all the alleged flaws with the trial case are true even in part, the appeal is a slam dunk.
3. Bottom line, what you are saying is that you don't trust the judicial process, not just in this case, but period. I sympathize with that position, and would respect fighting to restore a measure of trust in the judiciary. However, the narrow, hysterical focus on this one case because it touches on the illegal immigration debate only leaves me cold.