{"id":131,"date":"2007-04-15T00:23:02","date_gmt":"2007-04-15T06:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=131"},"modified":"2007-04-15T00:23:02","modified_gmt":"2007-04-15T06:23:02","slug":"why-attorneys-matter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=131","title":{"rendered":"Why Attorneys Matter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to break the meme-lock of the Right on the attorneys scandal.  They don&#8217;t or can&#8217;t admit that firing eight of your own appointees in your second term because they aren&#8217;t prosecuting your political opponents is different than the normal changeover of USA&#8217;s that starts any Presidential term.  But maybe they can&#8217;t get worked up over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theagitator.com\/archives\/027703.php#027703\">what one of the new appointees<\/a>is doing.<\/p>\n<p>What was done to Ed Rosenthal is a travesty &#8212; one, by the way, that started under the Clinton Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Balko has been on fire lately.  The Agitator is quickly becoming one of the best blogs on the internets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s hard to break the meme-lock of the Right on the attorneys scandal. They don&#8217;t or can&#8217;t admit that firing eight of your own appointees in your second term because they aren&#8217;t prosecuting your political opponents is different than the normal changeover of USA&#8217;s that starts any Presidential term. But maybe they can&#8217;t get worked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=131\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why Attorneys Matter<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-liberties","category-law-and-order","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-27","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}