[hanamizu]

What is a session?

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Don’t know, but I remember a Kennedy congressman wrecked his car at something like 2am drunk as a skunk and claimed he was going to a committee meeting and was let off. But Liz & Kinzinger have no protection anymore. Charge them, but D.O.J. will decline to prosecute.

[Political Junkie Too]

Yeah, that was Patrick Kennedy who said he had taken Ambien and thought he had to go and vote.

Another case that went the other way (because he was a Republican) was Idaho Senator Larry Craig. Craig was arrested at the Minneapolis Airport and charged with lewd behavior for soliciting gay sex in a men's room. Craig said he had a "wide stance" and accidentally touched another man's foot while standing at a urinal.

Craig pleaded guilty to the misdemeanor charge of disorderly conduct, but later tried to retract his guilty plea when it was pointed out that he might have had immunity based on the "going to and returning from the same" clause in the Constitution. However, I'd think that a solicitation charge might fall under the "Breach of the Peace" exception, unless that's for public drunkenness (in 1789) and participation in unlawful protests.

-PJ