Ted Stevens may lose his law license.
By on Nov 1st, 2008 at 7:22 pm
Ted Stevens may lose his law license.
The Anchorage Daily News reports that the “Alaska Bar Association went to the state Supreme Court on Thursday seeking to suspend Sen. Ted Stevens’ law license on an interim basis, pending completion of his appeals. … Any final decision on Stevens’ license would wait until his appeals have been finished.” Unlike voting rights, which say that a felony conviction is effective only upon sentencing, bar association rules say that a conviction is set as soon as a jury rules.
Update "Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye provided a campaign boost Saturday to embattled Republican Sen. Ted Stevens, predicting that his colleague from Alaska will win re-election and overturn his conviction on appeal."
Update Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid rebuffed Inouye's comments. “While I respect the opinion of Senator Daniel Inouye, the reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate. And as precedent shows us, Senator Stevens will face an ethics committee investigation and expulsion, regardless of his appeals process,” Reid said.
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As Sir John Gielgud said to Liza Minelli in “Arthur”, “Good luck in prison.”
November 1st, 2008 at 7:31 pmIt could not happen to a more deserving a$$hole. Can we hope that failin’ Palin will also lose her “Ho”in’ license?
November 1st, 2008 at 7:31 pm.
According to Stevens, is he still able to cast a vote for himself this election? He says he’s NOT a convicted Felon until ALL appeals are exhausted… Is he correct?
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November 1st, 2008 at 7:31 pmFunny Sarah-cooter satire…Scroll down and hear “Ben Bernanke (Send Me Some Green)”
November 1st, 2008 at 7:32 pmMax-1 Says:
According to Stevens, is he still able to cast a vote for himself this election? He says he’s NOT a convicted Felon until ALL appeals are exhausted… Is he correct?
From the TP article above: Unlike voting rights, which say that a felony conviction is effective only upon sentencing, bar association rules say that a conviction is set as soon as a jury rules.
Sounds like he is…about this. He was wrong about the internet being a series of tubes, but he was right about this.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:36 pmMax-1 Says: “Is he correct?”
“Do a bear shit in the woods?”
November 1st, 2008 at 7:37 pm“Is a pig’s ass pork?”
“I am not a crook.”
“The check is in the mail.”
“Trust me.”
“It’s only a cold sore.”
“I am a Republican and the Virgin Mary is a Lesbian.”
OT:
Victoria Jackson takes batscat crazy to a whole new level.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/01/victoria-jackson-obama-a_n_139962.html
November 1st, 2008 at 7:38 pmHoooly craapola..this guy is a lawyer?..between him and gonzo,
I’m starting to lose faith in the intellectual legitimacy of my profession… is Inhofohoe a lawyer too? This guys said some of the stupidest things around..in law school, didn’t someone ever tell him that the american justice system is made up of a “series of laws”, ones which cause you to end up behind a “series of bars” if you break?
Sure, lawyers in general have a reputation somewhere slightly above prostitutes and PCP dealers, but to anyone who thinks thier bad things….just ask yourself, why does the bush administration constantly rail against them?..they must be doing something right..
November 1st, 2008 at 7:39 pmYa know, this entire trial, its appeals, losing his license and the overall strain, could take years of the 84-year old Stevens’ life.
Heh.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:39 pmWayne A. Schneider Says: ”
According to Stevens, is he still able to cast a vote for himself this election? He says he’s NOT a convicted Felon until ALL appeals are exhausted… Is he correct?
From the TP article above: Unlike voting rights, which say that a felony conviction is effective only upon sentencing, bar association rules say that a conviction is set as soon as a jury rules.
Sounds like he is…about this. He was
November 1st, 2008 at 7:41 pmWayne,
November 1st, 2008 at 7:42 pmThanks.
You’re welcome, Max-1.
You were saying, Crusty Old Bastard? :)
November 1st, 2008 at 7:43 pmComment 10.
I pushed the wrong button! Belay my last.
The jury ruled. Stevens was found guilty and his law license is set aside immediately.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:45 pmYes, Crusty, he must give up his law license. But he can still vote unless he waives his appeals and agrees to be sentenced. But if he did that, he wouldn’t get his chance to vote against that ungrateful Sarah Palin for not standing by him even after he was found guilty of the kind of thing she got elected Governor to fight.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:48 pmLooks like Uncle Ted is confusing the voters. Now it takes the biggest Alaskan News paper to explain it to the voters. Uncle Ted can’t vote because he’s a conviced felon and it wasn’t his twin brother Chuck. Secondly his license is only suspended and will be removed once his apppeal is finished. It was a good try by Uncle Ted but it seems the people of Alaska don’t wont criminals to represent their State. Looks like Sarah Boop is not to get the boot out of office.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:49 pmIf he still has a drivers licence perhaps after paying the toll he can drive off the bridge to no where and then vote.
November 1st, 2008 at 7:50 pmO.T. – but this is truly a terrible story. This is the kind of stuff that makes me ashamed of my own country the last 7+ years.
Willett is also angry the defence department will not agree to let him meet his clients unless they are chained to the floor. He called for this restriction to be lifted: “Just permit these men one shred of human dignity.” He added: “Americans are not supposed to treat enemy prisoners of war this way under the service field manuals, or the Geneva conventions – if anyone paid attention to the field manuals or the Geneva conventions anymore.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/nov/01/guantanamo-china
November 1st, 2008 at 7:53 pmBut according to Ted he hasn’t been convicted of anything, so whats all this removed his license stuff about?
Just think…80 more hours and this cretin will have been defeated and in early January he’ll be off to prison. I’m hoping for Leavenworth
November 1st, 2008 at 8:03 pmY’know… at times like this I really miss our old troll JimAK…
November 1st, 2008 at 8:05 pmGuys…would anyone mind checking crooksandliars.com for me? I haven’t been able to get to their site in a couple of days.
Cannot access via Firefox or IE. Get a “page cannot be found” error. Tried pinging the site and cannot get a response from that either.
Thanks.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:07 pmBad Eye Says:
Site works for me…
November 1st, 2008 at 8:10 pmLeft Coast Mike:
Thanks for checking!
November 1st, 2008 at 8:13 pmTed’s numbers have taken a dive… now losing by 15 points.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:27 pmSarah, the reformer, should be leading this charge against corruption. But its not happening. Why?
November 1st, 2008 at 8:32 pm# 7 pete
Is she for real…she has to be joking – no one is that stupid.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:36 pm# 7 pete
if she is joking, and doesn’t the lipstick job give a clue to that,then this is very funny. But if not, well can not go down that road.
November 1st, 2008 at 8:46 pmAre things so out of whack it is hard to tell the real from the humorous?
My first thought about the Victoria Jackson clip is that she’s got to be a lefty plant, set up to make right-wing celebrities look stupid.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:12 pmAfter watching the Victoria clip again my impression is – is she is being a comedian making jun of the right… as the makeup job is hilarious and she did crack up at the end.
What bothers me is I can not tell for sure as there are so many stupids out there.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:22 pmAm I un-informed or just plain “republican”??? If a JURY finds you GUILTY, isn’t that “convicted” or are all our prisons filled with innocent people waiting appeals????? OJ was found “guilty” and is sitting in a Nevada cell awaiting an “appeal” . . . .
Seems if I am found “guilty” of having an ounce, I get sentence – go to jail THEN “appeal” . . or is there a DIFFERENT legal system for politicians?
November 1st, 2008 at 9:35 pmWhat’s the big deal about losing his law license? It’s not like that’s how he makes his living. He makes it by getting free money on the side and not telling anyone. http://straighttalkonmccain.blogspot.com/
November 1st, 2008 at 9:46 pmralph the wonder llama Says:
My first thought about the Victoria Jackson clip is that she’s got to be a lefty plant, set up to make right-wing celebrities look stupid.
Nope. She’s as nutty as a 3 dollar bill.
November 1st, 2008 at 9:53 pmIs stevens selling his taxpayer’s house? Will he pay taxes on his ill gotten gains?
moosey is associated with a felon. moosey do you see how this works. Knock off your silly “association game.” DB!
stevens can appeal from the comfort of his comfy cell. He lied and stole our money. Naturally, he passed laws that benefited him and his crowds’ way of life.
~~~~~~The longest serving repug senator is a crook. Surprise! Surprise!~~~~~~~~~~~~
stevens go with your head held down you lying crook and STFU. Go with the rest of your fiends.
November 1st, 2008 at 10:04 pmall i know is that
ted is going to make
someone a wonderful
cellmate.
*
thank you.
^
November 1st, 2008 at 10:46 pmOf course that b!tch heard it… any one with substance or at least a hint of integrity would have called this out.
I have absolutely no respect left for those in my neighborhood with a McCain/Paline sign or the members in my family that support this ho and lying old man.
Obama being the well mannered gentleman he is would never allow obscenities such as this.
November 1st, 2008 at 11:29 pmSpeaking of rallies…
McCain is planning an appearance at our local airport on Monday. This is in Tennessee, where he is leading Obama by double digits. Yeah, he really needs to drum up support here. Oh, and this apparently very last minute announcement caught the TN state Republican party totally off guard and one prominent local Repub state senator (Ron Ramsey, Lt. Gov and Speaker of the state senate) isn’t changing his plans to be out of town.
Seems to me that McCain needs to be in Virginia, about a 10 minute drive up the interstate, where he needs the most support. After all, Obama made not one, but two visits to that part of the state.
But the Repubs weren’t totally absent from the area; a few weeks ago Haley Barbour led a Repub bus tour through VA and held a “rally” in the cafeteria of a local middle school. They had a whopping 300 people show up.
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:02 amIt couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:13 amLosing his law license would be a start..
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:17 amSo, this aBstard can cast a vote for himself since he’s not SENTENCED yet, but according to the Bar Association, he can be disbarred upon conviction (from a jury of his peers) of his seven felonies. There is something seriously wrong here.
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:20 amGood! Thats not all he should lose!!
November 2nd, 2008 at 12:23 amDon’t know if this has already been posted, but here’s a piece from McClatchy:
Alaska’s Permanent Fund has lost $10 billion in last year
Alaska Permanent Fund investments had a negative 8.5 percent return during the July-September quarter thanks to sagging stock markets, said officials of the state oil-wealth savings account.
The fund value fell to $33 billion on Sept. 30, the end of the quarter. But stock markets plunged in October, and the fund’s value now is about $30 billion. The value peaked at $40.4 billion a year ago.
Despite the pounding from the stock market, the fund should make a profit for the fiscal year that ends next June, said Michael Burns, chief executive of the Alaska Permanent Fund Corp. That should prop up next fall’s annual Permanent Fund dividend paid to Alaskans. The dividend is based on profits averaged over five years. The fund’s profits this fiscal year would need to hit about $1.5 billion to result in a dividend about the size of this year’s $2,069.
“With our cash stream from real estate rent and other sources, we expect to end the fiscal year with a positive balance for statutory net income,” Burns said. But he noted that one-fourth into that fiscal year the fund was showing a $137 million loss, not a profit.
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:30 amAw man! and he’s gonna need that law license while in prison!
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:50 amTed Stevens better watch out or he’ll give lawyers a bad name.
Oh, and a follow-up on one of his fellow Alaskans:
Why do I get the feeling that Sarah “Barracuda” Palin is not releasing her medical records because to do so would reveal that she had an abortion years ago?
I figure that the optimum period for Sarah “Barracuda” Palin to possibly have gotten an abortion would have been during that period when she was competing in Alaskan beauty pageants, and “The Barracuda” wouldn’t have allowed anything to get in the way of her quest for the crown…like an unwanted pregnancy.
If she has nothing to hide from the American voting public concerning her past medical history, then Sarah “Barracuda” Palin shouldn’t hesitate to release her complete medical records, but if there are any gaps, like during her beauty pageant contestant years, then by inference we’ll know that the McCain/Palin campaign is trying to hide something she did while a young maverick from their ardent religious fundamentalist anti-abortion base today, something that could prove very detrimental to their chances of winning on Tuesday.
Oh, and any abortion that Sarah “Barracuda” Palin got back then would have been purely a “vanity” abortion, meaning that her life wasn’t in any danger from possible pregnancy complications, a “vanity” abortion” she wanted because being pregnant would have made her look fat and probably ruined her beauty pageant aspirations.
November 2nd, 2008 at 2:19 amWhat we’re really got to to is find out who’s been handing out law licenses to Republicans.
Do Not Adjust Your Television Set:
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:08 amhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBoOqysiLFo
Let Stevens vote–he’s going to choose Obama in 2008 because he will need Obama to pardon his hind-end out of prison when he’s sentenced AFTER Obama is elected. How can Bush pardon Stevens, if as Stevens claims, he has not been convicted?
November 2nd, 2008 at 8:46 amWhy wasn’t abortion abolished in the early years of the Bush Administration when Republicans controlled the White House, Congress, and the Courts?
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:33 amAbove the Clouds Says:
How can Bush pardon Stevens, if as Stevens claims, he has not been convicted?
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Unfortunately, the same way Ford pardoned Nixon back in the 70’s.
We went thru all of this about 2 months ago.
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:39 amWhoa… good one, Dr matt…
You just ravelled forward in time.
TP sez you posted yer comment at 9:50, but it’s only 9:41…
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 amThat’s “traveled”… traveled forward in time…
November 2nd, 2008 at 9:41 amThe politics from the pulpit has to stop. If they want to preach who to vote for they must lose their tax free status.
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:07 amAbove the Clouds Says:
Why wasn’t abortion abolished in the early years of the Bush Administration when Republicans controlled the White House, Congress, and the Courts?
But that would leave just flag burning and same-sex marriage as the only issues that the Repubs could talk about during an election year. They just don’t have the same effect.
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:08 amDemocratic senator Daniel Inouye…isn’t he the prick who helped cover up Iran/Contra by not allowing certain quetions to be asaked during the Iran/Contra hearings. *spit*
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:46 amBad Eye Says:
Above the Clouds Says:
Why wasn’t abortion abolished in the early years of the Bush Administration when Republicans controlled the White House, Congress, and the Courts?
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am“““““““““““““““““““““““““
I’ve asked that question to my very republican, pro lifer sister of mine and of course her response is…it should be up to each State. Never answering the obvious, that her and the rest of the pro lifers are being played by the GOP who really don’t give a damn one way or the other about abortion.
Is Mr Tubes law license a active one, or in-active one? He’s had plenty of time in the last years 8 or so because the Senate hasn’t done anything with Mr. Tubes at the helm!
November 2nd, 2008 at 11:18 amI’m truly surprised at Inouye’s comment. Has he not been following this case? My respect for him has taken a big hit.
As for Fester’s contention that he’s
I may well be wrong I don’t remember it that way. I do remember Inouye ripping Ollie North for claiming that Congress leaked national security info. He made North admit that both he and the White House leaked that info.
And who could forget Sen. Inouye’s defining moment when he declares the existence of a “shadow government“?
-AF
November 2nd, 2008 at 1:16 pmAndrew Sullivan Is A Fraud