Among those who will be there is Joseph Siegelman, son of the former (and now imprisoned) Alabama Governor. He was a guest Friday Morning on Alabama News Network in Montgomery.
He told us he talked with his Father the previous Monday, the Governor's 68th birthday, and says it is his Father's strength that keeps the family strong.
There is only one two-pronged appeal left: the argument that the prosecutor, then U.S. Attorney Leura Canary, had an obvious conflict of interest since her husband was campaign manager for his opponent in the race for Governor (and that she did not truly recuse herself from the prosecution after she said she would), and the argument that the judge sentenced Siegelman for three times the amount that would have been appropriate.
Beyond that is the hope for a pardon from President Obama before he leaves office. If not, Siegleman's could be in prison till 2018.
The younger Siegelman is a lawyer now, working for a Birmingham firm, and told me he has zero interest in getting into politics. Would you "want to go to jail?", he asked me.
In addition to voting rights in general, the crossing this year will protest last year's U.S. Supreme Court ruling against a key part of the Voting Rights Act...the part requiring Alabama and other mostly Southern States to have changes to voting laws and procedures approved by the U.S. Department of Justice.[Sunday Focus is a regular feature of TimLennox.com.]
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