Hugh was going nuts over this today. Lockyer must recuse himself.Thanks for the ping!
Hmmmm... I seem to remember a SIMILAR case that happened recently, where an Attorney General had taken campaign donations from a corporation that he was charged with investigating, and in that case, HE recused himself - to avoid the appearance of impropriety...
From http://www.opensecrets.org/alerts/v6/alertv6_36.asp:
There would therefore SEEM to be a precedent, but perhaps it only applies to Attorneys General with CHARACTER.January 10, 2002 - Attorney General John Ashcroft, who announced today that he will recuse himself from the Justice Department’s criminal probe of fallen energy giant Enron, raised a total of $57,499 from the company for his failed 2000 Senate campaign. Nearly half of that total -- $25,000 – was given by Enron CEO Kenneth Lay to Ashcroft’s joint fund fundraising committee in the form of soft money. The Ashcroft Victory Committee also raised another $25,000 in soft money directly from Enron Corp., bringing the committee’s total take from Enron to $50,000...