Comments on: Scooter Disbarred in DC

By: broadbrush

broadbrush — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 20:59:23 +0000

The Price of Treason.Surely a little hush money is deserved and around Xmas time ” W’ thoughts turn to pardons.

By: scribe

scribe — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:23:50 +0000

Right.

The duration and severity of the penalty of disbarment depends on which Court/Bar it is that is handing it down. In some states, it is effectively a suspension of at least X years (X varying between states, too), while in other states it is a permanent “barred for life” penalty.
A suspension carries within it the idea that the attorney is still an attorney, and may apply to reactivate their license at some future date (after the end of the suspension). A disbarment, OTOH, strips the attorney of his/her status as such.

The “interesting” aspect comes up in the whole area of reciprocal discipline. If an attorney were to be admitted in 2 jurisdictions, one “A” which has a “death penalty” disbarment and the other “B” not, and is disbarred in “B” for conduct in “B”, it is entirely conceivable (and, IIRC, has happened) that even though his conduct in “B” might not have earned him the death penalty disbarment in “A”, by virtue of reciprocal discipline “A” would give him a disbarment and the career death penalty, which could then be translated into a similar career death penalty in “B”. All that through reciprocity.

IIRC, Scooter’s admitted in Pa. and was in DC. I don’t know whether Pa. has a death penalty disbarment, but I think they might.

So, I think we can add Scooter’s to the list of “Banned for Life Action Figures”.

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BTW, the “Banned for Life Action Figures” were, as the more senior among us may remember, a Letterman bit about “Gifts for Christmas” from his NBC show, back in the late 80s. They included figures of former NBA player Michael Ray Richardson and Pete Rose, and came along with an Exxon Valdez Gravy Boat, which had the unfortunate tendency to pour the gravy out a hole in the bottom….
In case anyone was wondering on the subreference….

By: dmac

dmac — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:15:07 +0000

twolf, you are soooo right..

irish jim-riesz is not a troll, he’s a hillary supporter, nothing new there. he’s happy about the poll. he’s expressing that.

same as everyone else does about their candidate.

By: mui1

mui1 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:56:49 +0000

Sara Taylor. She didn’t say much in committee. Didn’t know she could talk. I’d like to see Conyers drag her arse back to testify again and ask why she can be verbal on MSNBC, but not where it counts.

By: mui1

mui1 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:47:09 +0000

A Washington, D.C., radio station reports that I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby Jr., the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, has been disbarred.
Good. I suggest Scooter start writing some more of those *fascinating* novels, like the one with the bears and the . . . oh never mind.

By: dosido

dosido — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:23:47 +0000

Billy Crystal’s consigliere will splain a few things…

By: Petrocelli

Petrocelli — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:23:01 +0000

… or having a cow … *g*

By: Petrocelli

Petrocelli — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:22:31 +0000

Yep … in Yoga, it’s called “Blindly giving your power away to others”

((( RBG )))

By: twolf1

twolf1 — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:21:47 +0000

Somewhere, Karl Rove is smiling.

By: decotodd

decotodd — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:14:00 +0000

Monica Goodling perhaps for flagrant violations of the Hatch Act and asking political questions in hiring decisions?

Was horrified to see that MSNBC hired Sara Taylor as a commentator! Jesus, can’t they do any better than one of Rove’s disgraced minions.