Political Prosecutions in the Bush Era: A Forum

By Scott Horton

While the collapse of the Justice Department’s prosecution of former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens and the criminal probe targeting the Department’s senior prosecutors responsible for political cases have gained some recent attention, the story of prosecutorial misconduct in high-profile political cases over the last eight years remains largely unexplored. On Friday, June 26, a forum in Washington will focus attention on these cases and will revive the call for Congressional probes and an internal accounting within the Justice Department.

Keynote Speaker: Rep. John Conyers, Chair, House Judiciary Committee

Presentations from:

Rep. Hank Johnson (D-Ga.), Chair, House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Courts

Hon. U.W. Clemon, former Chief U.S. District Court Judge (N.D. Ala.)

Hon. Don E. Siegelman, former Governor of Alabama

Hon. Oliver Diaz, former Justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court

Scott Horton, Contributing Editor, Harper’s Magazine

Hon. Eduardo Bhatia, Minority Whip, Senate of Puerto Rico

Nan Aron, President, Alliance for Justice

Gail Sistrunk, Executive Director, Project Save Justice

Andrew Kreig, attorney and investigative reporter

Friday, June 26, 2009, 8—11 a.m.

The National Press Club, Washington, D.C.