Spitzer: Other Voices

What others are saying about Eliot Spitzer’s attempt to clean up prostitution, one hooker at a time:

Scott Horton at Harper’s raises questions about prosecutorial motivation.

Walter Olson of Overlawyered presents a reader’s information about the “structuring” statute here, and in a NRO article here looks at the statute in the context of increased powers given to white collar prosecutors: “…the structuring statute was part of the ever more ferocious treatment of business and economic offenses in American law that might be termed, after its best-known practitioner, Spitzerization.”

At Houston’s Clear Thinkers, Tom Kirkendall bemoans the absence of media coverage of Spitzer’s abuses of power as a prosecutor, as well as the lack of coverage in the Jeff Skilling appeal.

Today’s AP story mentions that Spitzer is a Democrat exactly zero times. Have they done likewise with Republicans?

The Agitator presents Great Moments In Sex Scandal Press Conferences (from a running gag on BBC’s Little Britain series).