Davis Pressing on for Siegelman ReviewEven though Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is moving on, Rep. Artur Davis (D-AL) will still push for a review of former Gov. Don Siegleman’s (D-AL) case to investigate whether it was politically motivated, he told the Birmingham News:
“That fact that [Gonzales] is leaving should not deter Congress from continuing to dig into claims of selective prosecution or abuse of power,” Davis said in an interview a few minutes after Gonzales announced his resignation.Davis and three other members of the House Judiciary Committee have asked the agency to turn over records related to criminal cases brought against three people, including former Gov. Don Siegelman. Those documents have not yet been provided.
“The public still has a right to know just how politicized the Department of Justice became in the course of this presidency,” Davis said.
Siegelman was sentenced to seven years in prison after a jury convicted him of granting a health care executive a seat on a public board in exchange for a contribution to an education lottery fund. Questions about the genesis of the case cropped up when a Republican lawyer signed a sworn affidavit implicating Karl Rove in the decision to prosecute the former Democratic governor.