I don’t care what you think of Rush Limbaugh, but if you do not recognize that this is one of the most politically motivated witch-hunts in the history of American prosecution, I take back everything nice I said about “The Hunting of the President”:
Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday won an appeals court ruling that will send his case to the Florida Supreme Court, which could decide if prosecutors properly seized his medical records late last year as a part of an investigation into Limbaugh’s prescription drug use.
In early October, a three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal in West Palm Beach ruled Palm Beach County prosecutors didn’t violate Limbaugh’s privacy rights when they seized his medical records with search warrants.
Limbaugh and his attorney, Roy Black, have maintained that prosecutors should have followed a procedure in state law and notified Limbaugh that they intended to obtain his medical records.
That would have given Limbaugh a chance to contest it in court, and a judge would have to decide whether prosecutors could issue subpoenas for the records. Instead, prosecutors looked at Florida case law and determined they were allowed to seize the records with search warrants without notifying Limbaugh.
After that ruling, which technically cleared the way for prosecutors to continue with their investigation, Black asked the same three-judge panel to reconsider its decision or send the case to the Florida Supreme Court.
There is absolutely no need for any prosecution in this case, there is no precedent for prosecution in this type of case (in particular, precedent points in different directions), and Limbaugh has already dealt with his addiction.
What is most saddening about this is that all of the fucked up liberals in Palm Beach writing the prosecutor to advance this case are probably the same loudmouths who have never read the PATRIOT Act but are screetching how it violates their civil rights. Once again, and I can not state this often enough- the corrupt war on drugs has destroyed more of your civil rights than anything else ever put before the President to sign. And now a supposed group of liberal civil rights advocates are willing to cut off their nose to spite their collective faces.
