To add, one of the main reasons Pelosi is still a distraction on this major story is because she has handled the situation so poorly.
The Internet does a good job of playing the role long filled by newspapers, delivering headlines, opinions and instant analysis.
That's not what his newspaper buddies are saying...
In an interview with The Hill, Conyers said he would not support a Granholm nomination. Conyers said that he “was supporting her” until she sent him a recommendation for a U.S. attorney to whom Conyers took exception. Conyers said he was “bewilder[ed]” by the name that she sent him, but would not elaborate [...] On Saturday, Conyers told liberal activists at a rally that he had told Obama he does not support naming Granholm to the high court. Conyers told a reporter for the Michigan Messenger that he believed his opposition to Granholm's appointment would kill her chances. Conyers and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus want a second African-American justice on the Supreme Court and are pushing Obama to appoint Rep. Robert "Bobby" Scott (D-Va.).
In an interview with The Hill, Conyers said he would not support a Granholm nomination. Conyers said that he “was supporting her” until she sent him a recommendation for a U.S. attorney to whom Conyers took exception. Conyers said he was “bewilder[ed]” by the name that she sent him, but would not elaborate [...]
On Saturday, Conyers told liberal activists at a rally that he had told Obama he does not support naming Granholm to the high court. Conyers told a reporter for the Michigan Messenger that he believed his opposition to Granholm's appointment would kill her chances.
Conyers and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus want a second African-American justice on the Supreme Court and are pushing Obama to appoint Rep. Robert "Bobby" Scott (D-Va.).
After four years on the Court, however, Roberts’s record is not that of a humble moderate but, rather, that of a doctrinaire conservative. The kind of humility that Roberts favors reflects a view that the Court should almost always defer to the existing power relationships in society. In every major case since he became the nation’s seventeenth Chief Justice, Roberts has sided with the prosecution over the defendant, the state over the condemned, the executive branch over the legislative, and the corporate defendant over the individual plaintiff. Even more than Scalia, who has embodied judicial conservatism during a generation of service on the Supreme Court, Roberts has served the interests, and reflected the values, of the contemporary Republican Party.
Oh, and according to Roberts, racism has ended. Yeay!
In Illinois, prosecutors have opposed a DNA test for Johnnie Lee Savory, convicted of committing a double murder when he was 14, on the grounds that a jury was convinced of his guilt without DNA and that the 175 convicts already exonerated by DNA were “statistically insignificant.” In the case of Robert Conway, a mentally incapacitated man convicted of stabbing a shopkeeper to death in 1986 in Pennsylvania, prosecutors have objected that DNA tests on evidence from the scene would not be enough to prove his innocence. And in Tennessee, prosecutors withdrew their consent to DNA testing for Rudolph Powers, convicted of a 1980 rape, because the victim had an unidentified consensual sex partner shortly before the attack.
In Illinois, prosecutors have opposed a DNA test for Johnnie Lee Savory, convicted of committing a double murder when he was 14, on the grounds that a jury was convinced of his guilt without DNA and that the 175 convicts already exonerated by DNA were “statistically insignificant.”
In the case of Robert Conway, a mentally incapacitated man convicted of stabbing a shopkeeper to death in 1986 in Pennsylvania, prosecutors have objected that DNA tests on evidence from the scene would not be enough to prove his innocence.
And in Tennessee, prosecutors withdrew their consent to DNA testing for Rudolph Powers, convicted of a 1980 rape, because the victim had an unidentified consensual sex partner shortly before the attack.
Seriously, there's ZERO reason to prevent inmates from using DNA to try and prove their innocence. We know all too painfully well that the criminal justice system is not perfect.
Y’know, outlawing the “types of poaching that copyright might not cover” is a two-way street. I’d be rich if I had a nickel for every time I read an article in a major newspaper that was lifted from a indie newspaper (even going as far as re-creating the story from scratch by re-interviewing everyone from the original article), local interest blog (using small blogs as a canary-in-the-coalmine to get leads), or online journalist like Joshua Marshall or Marcy Wheeler (stealing scoops without citation). In fact, I’ve noticed these sorts of “coincidences” at the L.A. Times a lot more than I’ve seen the online “pilfering” that’s such a concern. Even the lamest right-wing blogs (who entertain the notion that blogging as a medium will magically replace the “dead tree” media) have enough integrity to link back to the sources they’re quoting and commenting upon. Maybe if the newspapers would be more honest about their habit of crowdsourcing story ideas, they could develop a less hostile attitude toward the internet and actually come up with a business model that works.