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Will This Corrupt U.S. Attorney Eat Her Words?

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Here's a Practitioner of Political Prosecution
Alice Martin, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Alabama, is prone to make high-minded statements about the fairness and thoroughness with which her office conducts its affair.

But respected observers, such as Scott Horton of Harper's Magazine, have called Martin one of the primary practitioners of political prosecution in the country. She was the first prosecutor to go after former Democratic Alabama Governor Don Siegelman. And she has gone after a host of state legislators, all Democrats, in an investigation of Alabama's two-year colleges system.

Is Alice Martin the high-minded public servant she claims to be? Or is she just a political hack, who is willing to do pretty much whatever the corrupt Bush Justice Department wants her to do--in the name of gaining a political advantage for Republicans?

The folks at Legal Schnauzer have had a most interesting personal interaction with Alice Martin. And they are about to show us that Alice Martin is a political hack of the worst kind.

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I live in Birmingham, Alabama, and work in higher education. I became interested in justice-related issues after experiencing gross judicial corruption in Alabama state courts. This corruption has a strong political component. The corrupt judges are (more...)
 
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