Rep. William Jefferson, D-La., the target of a two-year public-corruption investigation, is finding himself with strange bedfellows.
Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., a former House speaker; Robert Michel, R-Ill., a former House minority leader; and Scott Palmer, the former chief of staff for Rep. Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., are among those who have filed friend-of-the-court briefs in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, backing Jefferson's argument that the FBI raid on his office last May was unconstitutional.
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Federal prosecutors filed briefs Friday urging the appeals court to uphold the constitutionality of the search. U.S. District Judge Thomas Hogan ruled in July that the FBI had "demonstrated a compelling need to conduct the search," and the appeals court will hear oral arguments May 15 on the matter.
Gingrich can go to hell. He’s nothing but a embarrassing gadfly.
Good God. What's going on here?