BREAKING: Seven AK Employees to Honor Troopergate Subpoenas (UPDATED)
by Woochifer
Sun Oct 05, 2008 at 06:04:37 PM PDT
This story is just starting to come out. In light of the AK Supreme Court decision earlier this week, seven state employees said that they will now honor the subpoenas and testify in the Troopergate investigation.
adn.com.
Alaska Attorney General Talis Colberg announced today that seven state employees will now honor subpoenas to testify in the legislative investigation of the Troopergate affair.
Keep in mind that this is the AG that had earlier tried to block the state employees from honoring the subpoenas.
"Despite my initial concerns about the subpoenas, we respect the court's decision to defer to the Legislature," Colberg said. "We are working with Senator Hollis French to arrange for the testimony of the seven state employee plaintiffs."
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The Troopergate report is still due to come out on Friday. My understanding is that it would have come out regardless of whether the subpoenas were honored, because many of the parties involved have already had depositions taken. But, having follow up testimony under oath with the special investigator would seem to lend further credence to whatever findings are in the report.
With McCain ready to go nucular with the smears, any clear-cut findings that Palin abused her executive power could snuff out that partisan crap fire in a hurry.
UPDATE: Wow! Thanks for all the recs, honored to make my first trip to the rec list!
In light of some of the comments pointing the Supreme Court appeal process, here's the link to the AP story from yesterday.
The way that I read this (I'm not a lawyer, so feel free to correct me if I'm reading it incorrectly), the Supreme Court appeal filed by the McCain camp is attempting to block the release of the actual investigation findings. But, the Superior Court judge's earlier ruling clears the way for the investigation to continue. From the AP story, it would be an unprecedented action for the Supreme Court to suppress the Troopergate report.
ap.google.com.
Defense attorney Peter Maassen said the Legislature is free to conduct an investigation as it sees fit and the judge's ruling confirmed the separation of power principles. By the time the Supreme Court makes a ruling, the investigation will have already been completed — all that will remain will be to make its findings public.
"There's been no time in history that a court has suppressed the outcome of a legislative investigation," Maassen said.
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