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By Jeralyn

pNot much news to report this evening. It#39;s all Blagojevich, Caroline and stories we#39;ve been talking about for days. The Illinois Supreme Court a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/us/18illinois.html?ref=us"won#39;t remove the Governor/a; Caroline a href="http://polhudson.lohudblogs.com/2008/12/17/kennedy-finishes-tour/"toured upstate NY/a./p pChrysler has a href="http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/17/autos/chrysler_shutdown/?postversion=2008121719"shut down production of cars/a for a month; Bernie Madoff a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/18/business/18madoff.html?ref=business"got better bond conditions today/a with a condition of home detention -- at night only; a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/mukasey-recuses-himself-from-madoff-investigation/"Attorney General Mukasey recused himself/a from Madoff#39;s case because his son, a lawyer with Bracewell and Giuliani (yes that Giuliani) is representing a Madoff exec; and Madoff#39;s wife Ruth a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087amp;sid=accRgQ_2s29oamp;refer=home"may be under investigation/a./p pFormer Soprano#39;s actor Lillo Brancato#39;s jury is deliberating his fate on felony murder charges -- they a href="http://www.ny1.com/content/top_stories/90802/jury-asks-to-review-evidence-in-lillo-brancato-case/Default.aspx"asked to review evidence/a this afternoon; Georgia legislators push to a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/us/17death.html?partner=rssamp;emc=rss"eliminate the jury unanimity requirement/a in death penalty cases./p pObama has picked Pastor Rick Warren to a href="http://www.usnews.com/blogs/god-and-country/2008/12/17/why-rick-warrens-invocation-at-obamas-inauguration-matters.html"deliver the invocation/a at his inauguration. /p pIf there#39;s something you#39;d like to talk about, here#39;s a place./pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=sexL3moN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=gDyzJQQd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=43" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=vNhDdMC0"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?i=vNhDdMC0" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=fShJitBl"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=50" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?a=hH1nULac"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/TalkleftThePoliticsOfCrime?d=52" border="0"/img/a /div

Full post as published by TalkLeft on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).