I have never been a big fan of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens. He always had a reputation as a porker and he had the attitude of a wolverine with a tooth ache. But what happened to him last year was in my opinion, nothing less than a Democrat coup through the Department of Justice.

Just a few months after his loss in the Alaskan senatorial election and subsequent "conviction", the Department of Justice and a federal judge has set aside the conviction. The judge has also called for criminal contempt charges to be filed against the prosecution team from the case.

It was largely due to his indictment for the case that Stevens lost his long-held senate seat. At the time he was the longest, continuously serving Republican in the senate. It was considered by some pundits as a bellweather moment for the shift in power from Republicans to Demcrats. Considering the fact that it was largely due to this loss that the Dems were put into a near super-majority control of the senate, that I believe that liberal member of the DOJ actively sought to withhold evidence during the case to insure that he would either be voted out or convicted.

Let's hope that justice is served both criminally and politically.

SOURCE: Politico article