Siegelman is not over

Scott Horton -- who has been the most clear and persistent legal mind working to clear former Alabama governor Don Siegelman -- has this reaction to the federal appeals court's decision upholding most of the earlier convictions:  "This was a panel consisting entirely of Republican judges,and two of the three had an active record of political engagement in G.O.P. causes. They were a distinctly hostile audience for Governor Siegelman, and many passages of the opinion, to my eyes, reflect this. The Siegelman case has already left much of the nation convinced that federal prosecutors bring corruption cases as a matter of political gamesmanship–not out of concern for law enforcement. I doubt this decision will do much to change that perception."