Putting The Dum In Dumfries
May 5, 2007 at 8:04 pm
Alert reader Richard Andrews points out a complicated and bizarre story in the Post. The quick summation:
In a case seemingly riddled with wrongs, a federal judge had to decide yesterday who was more right: the Dumfries police officers who called in sick to head to Las Vegas, or their supervisors who confronted them at the airport upon their return.
We’ll cut to the chase with the oddest quote in a long time:
Horwatt said they will appeal. He added that the case is important because it indicates what is occurring on a national scale. “From top to bottom, from the highest levels to the lowest levels of government today, we are seeing an abuse of power and an abuse of authority,” he said.
A national scale? Wait a minute — some cops claim to be sick and jet off to Vegas, and therefore folks like Scooter Libby and Patrick Fitzgerald are presumably invoked? This is what lawyers call overreaching, right?
James Young, Esq. said,
May 6, 2007 @ 6:19 pm
A lawyer, overreach!?!?! Oh, foresooth!