Sychronicity

From today’s LA Times:

The Justice Department is putting the final touches on regulations that could give Atty. Gen. Alberto R. Gonzales important new sway over death penalty cases in California and other states, including the power to shorten the time that death row inmates have to appeal convictions to federal courts.

The rules implement a little-noticed provision in last year’s reauthorization of the Patriot Act that gives the attorney general the power to decide whether individual states are providing adequate counsel for defendants in death penalty cases. The authority has been held by federal judges.

Under the rules now being prepared, if a state requested it and Gonzales agreed, prosecutors could use “fast track” procedures that could shave years off the time that a death row inmate has to appeal to the federal courts after conviction in a state court.

From yesterday’s Brewster Rocket, Space Guy:

I can see it now — Gonzo expedites the execution of several people, first claiming there was no evidence they were innocent, then after DNA clears them, stating that he made the decision to whack him but he wasn’t involved in the decision and had no knowledge of the reasoning upon which the decision was based.

After it turns out that Rove sent a bunch of emails urging Gonzo to put a bullet in each head personally, which emails the White House won’t turn over.

Better to give a gun to a fucking monkey.