{"id":475,"date":"2009-01-29T18:21:52","date_gmt":"2009-01-30T02:21:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/?p=475"},"modified":"2009-01-29T18:36:36","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T02:36:36","slug":"why-politicians-cant-be-jurors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/why-politicians-cant-be-jurors\/","title":{"rendered":"Why politicians can&#8217;t be jurors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 184px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Blago\" src=\"http:\/\/www.polishnews.com\/art_pics\/blagojevich.jpg\" alt=\"15 million trusted this guy\" width=\"174\" height=\"245\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">1,736,219 people trusted this guy<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. Blagojevich <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/newsOne\/idUSTRE50R7IF20090129\">asked the Illinois Senate<\/a> that is acting as jury in his impeachment trial, &#8220;How can you throw a governor out of office who is clamoring and begging and pleading with you to give him a chance to bring witnesses in to prove his innocence?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The answer kind of lies in the question, I think.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, I don&#8217;t know if Blago is guilty or not.\u00a0 My prejudice of politicians says, &#8220;Of course he tried to use his public office for private gain.\u00a0 What are you thinking?&#8221;\u00a0 My prejudice of prosecutors and the press is along the lines of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabian.org\/alicech12.htm\">Sentence first&#8211;verdict afterwards<\/a>.&#8221;\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been teaching about scandal long enough to know that scandal is a creature driven by raw emotion.\u00a0 Nevertheless, I can&#8217;t summon the outrage about his proceedings.\u00a0 He and his accusers are in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dABKrPE3bOQ\">profession they<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dABKrPE3bOQ\">have chosen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The whole spectacle serves as a great civics lesson about the wisdom of the constitutional prohibition on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_of_attainder\">bills of attainder<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Blagojevich asked the Illinois Senate that is acting as jury in his impeachment trial, &#8220;How can you throw a governor out of office who is clamoring and begging and pleading with you to give him a chance to bring witnesses in to prove his innocence?&#8221; The answer kind of lies in the question, I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=475"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/475\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hodakvalue.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}