Alabama Sends Dems to Jail, Republicans to the Senate

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Anybody know anything about Alabama politics? Because it appears U.S. Attorneys and various judges in Alabama took a far-reaching series of corruption cases that implicated both Republicans and Democrats and prosecuted only the Democrats. The result? Former Democratic Governor Don Siegelman is in jail, and and former Republican Attorney General Jeff Sessions is now U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions.

It’s a big Time investigative report titled “Selective Justice in Alabama?” and one gets the sense Time‘s editors really wanted to leave that question mark off the end but didn’t have the guts.

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