(They call this democracy?)
Harvey Wasserman,
As the toxic dust settles on George W. Bush's second illegitimate inauguration, his moral legacy has been defined by the GOP's new attack on Ohio's 2004 election challenge legal team.
Republican Attorney General Jim Petro has attacked attorneys Bob Fitrakis, Susan Truitt, Cliff Arnebeck and Peter Peckarsky in front of the Ohio Supreme Court. Petro is demanding they be sanctioned and fined for filing the Moss v. Bush lawsuit that challenged the seating of
Moss v. Bush has already entered the history books as the suit that set the legal framework for an unprecedented grassroots/internet campaign that brought the first Congressional challenge in
Petro claims that Moss v. Bush suit was "frivolous." He says his punitive attack is about the "serious" nature of the court system.
In fact what Petro's doing is about revenge, intimidation and contempt for democracy and the law.
As has become known throughout the world, international monitors were barred from observing
This marks the second time Bush has been "elected" in a swing state where the balloting was controlled by a Republican Secretary of State serving simultaneously as the state's Bush-Cheney co-chair. In
The Moss v. Bush election challenge demanded first and foremost that the laws guaranteeing the public's right to see electoral documents be honored. And it asserted the public's right to hear sworn testimony from public officials about what must, in a democracy, be a free and fair vote count.
But today's Republican Party seems to hold itself above both democracy and the law…
