Hard Working Jury

I've tried a few cases in my day and therefore have lost sleep and work/life hours waiting for juries to come back and I really dread those times. This past couple of weeks had to be hell on all the lawyers involved, not to mention Scooter and his poor family. I would probably sympathize more with him if I didn't think he already made his deal with the devil. So pardon my cynicism in assuming the pardon is signed before the appeals process is complete.

There are lessons in all this whether or not the Bush administration and any of its flying monkeys is willing to learn them. They are timeless, ageless lessons that have to do with absolute power, with democracy, with doing the people's business. They are lessons that can also be learned as well by those that control congress on the left. They are not immune from the perils that go with leadership and with the enormous privilege bestowed upon each and every one of them sent to represent their constituents.

Patrick Fitzgerald has conducted himself admirably throughout the process and proved that people who know the limits of power, who wield that power in a measured way and remember their oath to uphold the constitution can, regardless of their political stripes, do the whole system proud. Let's hope this is another very small step in cleaning up the mess created by BushCo.

UPDATE:

Watching the one juror willing to talk certainly reinforces the point that this was a hard-working jury that went about its work in a serious way. And the coup-de-grace is that the jury wondered where was Rove (and others). Good question I think. I don't know how Rove, Cheney, and Bush sleep. Really. Unless they are vampires.