In February, Sen. Richard Shelby threatened to issue a blanket Senate hold on all Obama federal appointments unless the Defense Department gives more consideration to EADS-Northrop Grumman's bid. Sen. Jeff Sessions also wields power as the senior Republican on the Judiciary Committee, and thus the gatekeeper for any Obama judicial or Justice Department nominee.
Leura Canary's office continues to make newsas federal investigators this month warned state lawmakers that they risk prosecution if they illegally help Alabama's nascent electronic bingo industry fought by Riley.
This is part of a long-term battle making allies ofanti-gambling crusaders and Mississippi casino operators seeking to retain Alabama gambling business. Senate testimony has revealed that Jack Abramoff arranged for $10 million in donations from Mississippi casino owners to fight Siegelman, who promised in his 1999 election campaign to create a lottery to obtain funding for better schools. Siegelman signed a personal note to help found the Alabama Education Foundation to advocate for lotteries and the funding.
Bush administration prosecutors used Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base as headquarters for a multi-year investigation of Siegelman to show that Scrushy's donations to the foundation were in effect a bribe to Siegelman, who in 1999 reappointed Scrushy to a state board.
A bipartisan group of 91 former state attorneys general from more than 40 states have since formed an unprecedented coalition filing a friend-of-the-court brief to the Supreme Court and arguing it should hear Siegelman's case because his actions did not constitute a crime.
But Kagan, now widely reported as a leading candidate to ascend from her post as Justice Department solicitor general to become her friend Obama's nominee for a Supreme Court vacancy, urged the high court in November to deny Siegelman a hearing.
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