Cheering supporters? Check. Election returns on the projection screen? Check. Andrea Mitchell and Candy Crowley doing stand-ups? Check and check. In fact, the only piece missing from Hillary Clinton's Florida victory party here Tuesday night was a victory.
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"There are more voters in Florida alone than there are in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina combined," Clinton campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle argued in a conference call with reporters Tuesday. This was the same Solis Doyle who last summer committed Clinton to signing the Florida boycott pledge, saying, "We believe Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina play a unique and special role in the nominating process, and we believe the DNC's rules and its calendar provide the necessary structure to respect and honor that role."
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Clinton announced plans for the Florida celebration on Sunday, the same day she held a trio of fundraisers in Florida and accepted the endorsement of the Miami mayor while pressing some flesh for the cameras. On Monday, her campaign claimed the endorsement of Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, while pro-Clinton unions continued sending out mailings in her support.

All of this sounded suspiciously like campaigning. But aides said they were merely trying to protect the people of Florida who, despite the campaign's "scrupulous" refusal to campaign in the state, showed up to vote for Clinton anyway.

According to some ridiculous method the government uses to calculate the value of pot plants, those 39 seized and destroyed plants are worth more than $100,000. Money doesn't grow on trees, it grows on...

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.