Bush v. Reason: Fuck You, I'm The Decider

The law professor blog Sentencing Law and Policy has been a great source of links to newspaper articles and law geek columns regarding the Libby commutation.

To me, the whole ordeal is just another entry in Bush's growing history of unjustifiable acts, but it's interesting to see the legal communitiy, with many staunch Republicans among them, collectively going WTF? over this latest move by The Decider. Prosecutors, judges, and other law experts mostly seem astounded by the commutation, while defense attorneys are giddy over the opportunity to cite President Bush himself—who, BTW, had 57 executions under his belt as governor of Texas—when asking for leniency at sentencing hearings. Bush has opened a huge can of legal worms, and there seem to be plenty of hungry lawyers ready to fish for new legal precedent and exploits.