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Judge Walton orders I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby to go directly to jail pending appeals. More when stories hit the wire.

***Update***

Washington Post:

The federal judge presiding over the trial of I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby today ordered Vice President Cheney’s former chief of staff to report to prison within weeks to begin serving a 30-month sentence for lying to federal investigators about his role in disclosing a covert CIA officer’s identity to the media.

Walton will let Scooter self-report, which means that Libby won’t have to frog march if he doesn’t want to. Oh well.

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  2. 2.

    Wilfred

    Lewis Libby is a horrible, empty, shallow person, who has spent his entire life being pampered, doted on and catered to by a criminally incompetent group of Republican bosses (why aren’t these people going to jail instead?), all the while swooned over by a pack of psychopaths and the fawning Fox News. He has no concept of reality, no real relationships, no real understanding of love, sacrifice, and true friendship, and lives a shallow but gilded existence. He probably does think what is happening to him right now is unfair, but his poor grasp on reality is not entirely his fault. Unless things change radically for him as a result of this incarceration, he will go on and live out a meaningless and transparently fraudulent public existence, none the wiser that there really is much more to life than the fancy Georgetown restaurants and trips to the American Enterprise Institute.

    Yes, he is rich and spoiled, but only in the financial sense. Otherwise, he leads an empty and utterly meaningless existence. I wouldn’t trade places with him for all the money in the world (or in the coffers of the RNC, for that matter). It is entirely possible to loathe and feel sympathetic for this tragic figure.

    I do.

  3. 3.

    tBone

    I only hope that as Scooter is led to prison, he can conduct himself with the grace and good humor of Paris Hilton.

    Because it would be really awesome to see him sobbing “Mommy!” as he was hauled away.

  4. 4.

    Crust

    Judge Walton orders I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby to go directly to jail pending appeals.

    Make that pending appeals and pardons. He wouldn’t report to prison for several weeks, giving Bush plenty of time to pull out the old pardon pen first.

  5. 5.

    DougJ

    Because it would be really awesome to see him sobbing “Mommy!” as he was hauled away.

    It’d be more likely to be “Cheney!”.

  8. 8.

    Andrew

    So, reading up on pardons, it doesn’t seem like the President can pardon someone without their accepting guilt in the matter, and furthermore, the pardon must trickle through the DoJ and some time must pass after the sentence has already been served.

    On the other hand, it seems like El Presidente can commute the sentence at any time.

  9. 9.

    Andrew

    I should add to the first bit: “In most cases. The President can pardon at any time, but usually doesn’t.”

  10. 10.

    Tsulagi

    It’d be more likely to be “Cheney!”.

    LOL, that’s probably true.

    Maybe Cheney will pardon him. If anyone questions his authority, he’d just tell them to fuck off.

  12. 12.

    Jake

    “Scooter Libby still has the right to appeal, and therefore the president will continue not to intervene in the judicial process,” White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. “The president feels terribly for Scooter, his wife and their young children, and all that they’re going through.”

    …Sorry. I was going to make a pithy comment but I can’t get past the fact that an adult goes around with a name like Scooter and other adults encourage this sort of thing.

    Plus, Perino sounds like she’s been at the quaaludes again.

  13. 13.

    DougJ

    “So how’s Tom Maguire handling the news?”

    By sending threatening letters to Judge Walton.

  14. 14.

    tBone

    it doesn’t seem like the President can legally pardon someone without their accepting guilt in the matter

    The Decider isn’t a lawyer. He’s not going to let a minor point in the law stop him from doing what’s right for the country.

  15. 15.

    OniHanzo

    You gotta love gems like this:

    But conservatives expect Bush to pardon Libby, and after his pressing so hard for an immigration bill most conservatives hate, he damn well better “grow a pair” and pardon Libby now, or his support is going to fall below the 19% that Senator Reid has.

    Shake those feathers, boys! Somebody’s gotta listen!

  16. 16.

    numbskull

    Given Walton’s background, why would anyone think that this isn’t just a grandstanding firewall for Cheney?

  17. 17.

    Tom Hilton

    Even better than the Libby sentencing: Judge Walton smacked down the Borkapalooza brief, saying he wouldn’t accept it from a first-year. Nice. Very nice.

  19. 19.

    conumbdrum

    Maybe Cheney will pardon him. If anyone questions his authority, he’d just tell them to fuck off.

    If Cheney is guilty of any involvement in the outing of Valerie Plame (and I think we all agree that he is, right?) then pardoning Libby could land Dick in a world of hurt. This, more than anything, is probably the real reason that Cheney hasn’t been in contact with Scooter (other than he’s the coldest prick imaginable) – he must avoid even the perception that he’s brokering a deal to pardon. Which is, no doubt, why Dick’s GOP minions are wailing and rending their garments on Libby’s behalf, as if he were fucking Emmett Till.

    Read this piece by former Nixon attorney John Dean… he explains it far better than I can, and administers a nice smackdown to Cheney toady Fred Thompson as a bonus.

  20. 20.

    Tom Hilton

    The brief was from Robert “Million Dollar Bruise” Bork? I love it!

    Well, Bork and 11 other Prominent! Legal! Scholars!

    All of whom just got completely humiliated.

  22. 22.

    Steve

    When the leader of the NYC transit union got sentenced to jail last year for calling an illegal strike, he was given the option of self-reporting to serve his sentence. He chose to hold a rally in front of the courthouse in Brooklyn, from where he and thousands of supporters marched together across the Brooklyn Bridge into Manhattan. They ended their journey at the jailhouse, where he submitted himself to custody.

    I think Libby’s supporters should reenact that scene. Seriously, he has so many fans, I bet they could throw him a party that outshines anything some no-name union leader could command. I want to see them all march him in triumph to the jailhouse. Although Robert Bork will be allowed to skip the march, what with his bum leg and all.

  24. 24.

    Zifnab

    I think Libby’s supporters should reenact that scene. Seriously, he has so many fans, I bet they could throw him a party that outshines anything some no-name union leader could command. I want to see them all march him in triumph to the jailhouse. Although Robert Bork will be allowed to skip the march, what with his bum leg and all.

    Man, I wish. I can’t begin to dream of a better “break out the popcorn and lawn chairs” event. The Scooter Libby Perjury Parade would definitely be something to see.

  28. 28.

    Punchy

    Republicans are all about “rule of law”, which is why Libby wont be pardoned, right, John?

  29. 29.

    Tulkinghorn

    So the real question is… Stormy70?

    I didn’t see anything about rum, so that can’t be her.

  30. 30.

    Jake

    Man, I wish. I can’t begin to dream of a better “break out the popcorn and lawn chairs” event. The Scooter Libby Perjury Parade would definitely be something to see.

    I’d brave the mobs of tourists to go see that. Screw the 4th of July Fireworks & Drunken Fist-fight Fest, I want to see the Borktastic 12 weeping and throwing themselves in front of the paddy wagon.

  31. 31.

    Tax Analyst

    Wilfred Says:

    Lewis Libby is a horrible, empty, shallow person, who has spent his entire life being pampered, doted on and catered to by a criminally incompetent group of Republican bosses (why aren’t these people going to jail instead?), all the while swooned over by a pack of psychopaths and the fawning Fox News. He has no concept of reality, no real relationships, no real understanding of love, sacrifice, and true friendship, and lives a shallow but gilded existence. He probably does think what is happening to him right now is unfair, but his poor grasp on reality is not entirely his fault. Unless things change radically for him as a result of this incarceration, he will go on and live out a meaningless and transparently fraudulent public existence, none the wiser that there really is much more to life than the fancy Georgetown restaurants and trips to the American Enterprise Institute.

    Yes, he is rich and spoiled, but only in the financial sense. Otherwise, he leads an empty and utterly meaningless existence. I wouldn’t trade places with him for all the money in the world (or in the coffers of the RNC, for that matter). It is entirely possible to loathe and feel sympathetic for this tragic figure.

    Or, in short…Paris Hilton without the Party Affiliation, blonde hair and tits…except she’s probably moreless harmless…

  32. 32.

    Tax Analyst

    Or, in short…Paris Hilton without the Party Affiliation, blonde hair and tits…except she’s probably moreless harmless…

    I guess I don’t really know how to proofread…maybe I’ll figure it out when I get older…

  33. 33.

    Wilfred

    Or, in short…Paris Hilton without the Party Affiliation, blonde hair and tits

    Now, maybe. But wait until he gets out: 30 months in stir can change a man.

  34. 34.

    Zifnab

    Paris Hilton without the Party Affiliation, blonde hair and tits…

    Paris Hilton doesn’t have tits, she just has a really expensive bra.

  35. 35.

    Tax Analyst

    Zifnab Says:

    Paris Hilton doesn’t have tits, she just has a really expensive bra.

    Well, I’m not so sure that’s true…but I am fairly certain that Scooter has no hooter’s.

  37. 37.

    Tax Analyst

    Or, in short…Paris Hilton without the Party Affiliation, blonde hair and tits

    Now, maybe. But wait until he gets out: 30 months in stir can change a man.

    Are you implying that Scooter might end up being ridden like a Harley during his incarceration?

  39. 39.

    Krista

    Paris Hilton doesn’t have tits, she just has a really expensive bra.

    Hell, all things considered, we should be happy and grateful anytime a young celeb skankbot wears any foundation garments.

  41. 41.

    Tax Analyst

    jake Says:

    $20 mil and “three ciggarettes.”

    It is probably wrong to laugh at such things.

    Oh well.

    Yes, Jake…it is SO wrong to laugh at that…to which I might add, “Har-de-har-har”…

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