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Indeed, Fieger might be Michigan's fastest-rising Democrat, but he sometimes sounds more like "shock jock" Howard Stern. From disarming candor ("Sure, I smoked marijuana. And I inhaled. I'm not a liar like Clinton") to mean-spirited jabs (his favorite: Engler is the "product of miscegenation between barnyard animals and humans"), Fieger has spent his career making waves and lambasting virtually anyone who disagrees with him. "He's too quick. He's too unscrupulous, and he's too feisty," sniffs University of Michigan law professor Yale Kamisar, an expert on assisted suicide who has endured more than...
...dysfunctionality of the JonBenet Ramsey investigation was documented last Thursday when lead detective STEVE THOMAS resigned. Writing that the case was "crippled" by a "compromised" district attorney's office, he called for a special prosecutor. The implication was that the D.A. favored Ramsey's parents' lawyer, a prominent state Democrat. The prosecution called Thomas' letter "outrageous." JonBenet would have been eight last Saturday...
Officially, Lowell will serve as counsel to the House Judiciary Committee's ranking Democrat, John Conyers. But the decision to hire him for what could be the highest-profile legal-defense job in a generation was made in large part by Richard Gephardt, the House minority leader, and two other committee Democrats, Barney Frank and Howard Berman. The goal, say insiders, was to bring in someone capable of fighting a partisan war on a legal battlefield. "This situation doesn't call for a law-school dean, former-judge type," says a source familiar with the decision. "This could...
David P. Schippers, the lawyer hired by the house to help lead possible impeachment hearings against the President, is a lifelong Democrat who voted for Clinton twice. That's not the only surprising thing about his appointment as lead counsel by Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde. Schippers, a widely respected criminal-defense attorney and former federal prosecutor, has had practically nothing to do with national politics in his four-decade career. He once said he counts Thomas Jefferson among his heroes because "he never wanted to be in politics...
Puerto Rico's legislature is likely to vote tomorrow to authorize a plebiscite on future relations with the U.S. Faced with three options -- statehood, independence or a continuation of commonwealth status -- Governor Pedro Rossello and congressional Democrats are enthusiastic supporters of fully joining the union. But Republican concerns over adding a state that's likely to vote Democrat mean that we probably won't be adding a 51st star anytime soon...