Word: scandalousness
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...giving speeches in which he emphasized that the struggles ahead might be harder than expected. And though transparency is supposedly trademark Obama, some journalists have noted that Obama has begun to take on habits of his predecessor Bush, who is notoriously tightlipped. In the wake of the recent Blagojevich scandal, Obama has snapped or clammed up when asked for details about his team’s involvement in the investigation. He’s begun adding old-timers to his cabinet and deploying Clinton White House staffers. Could it be that even the beloved Obama, Crown Prince of Change...
...press conference, Blagojevich brought more trouble, including the issue of race, to an already florid scandal. He announced that he was appointing a successor, former Illinois Attorney General Roland Burris, to Barack Obama's vacated U.S. Senate seat - a move that will continue to roil the political waters in Illinois and ensure a continuing distraction for the President-elect. By naming Burris, the governor blatantly ignored warnings by Senate majority leader Harry Reid that any Blagojevich appointee would not be seated by the Senate. The governor also belied the assessment of his own defense attorney, who earlier said that Blagojevich...
...Texas death row numbers, thanks in part to high profile "tough-on-crime" prosecutors, Houston juries sent no new prisoners to death row in 2008. The Harris County prosecutor's office (which was roiled by the departure of its elected District Attorney over a sex-and-e-mail scandal) brought only two capital cases this year. One ended in a tough plea bargain and a 60-year sentence; the other, involving the vicious murder of a police officer, shocked the city's legal community when the defendant was convicted but spared the death penalty and given a life sentence...
John Stacks was TIME's Chief of Correspondents from 1987 to 1996; from 1973 to 1975, he coordinated the Watergate reporting of the magazine's Washington Bureau. He is the co-author of Judge John Sirica's memoir of the scandal's legal wrangling...
Take Me to Your Leader. For political junkies who want to get a closer view of President-elect Barack Obama's past (or the ongoing Blagojevich scandal), The James hotel in Chicago has a "City of Hope" package. A guide will take you in the hotel's Audi on a tour of the city, including the Hyde Park neighborhood, which the Obamas' called home, and Millennium Park, where Barack Obama acknowledged his election victory and where you can take a spin around the skating rink. Return to the hotel and warm up with hot chocolate in the Lobby Bar. While...