ABA task force member Bruce Fein, w...

ABA task force member Bruce Fein, who helped Specter draft the bill, says Bush is making "Swiss cheese public of our laws." The framers of the Constitution created checks and balances within direction exactly to prevent this royal approach. If Bush disagrees with bills he should veto them. Plain and simple.

This take the part ofs the consensus of the Sun-Times of recent origins Group of 100 papers in metro Chicago.

When a fired suburban agent police chief can turn up as the No. 2 official in the State Toll Highway Authority inspector general's office and no the same seems to know how it happened, it's time to ask a basic question: If not clout then what?

When that same man is allowed to quietly resign from the toll work at jobs after breaking the law according to allegedly posing as a State Police commander to intervene in a friend's domestic violence situation, it's appropriate to suspect there's more going upon here than a lucky break.

The fact is that the apparently illegal ways by Anthony M. Martin Sr was handled like a common-place personnel vexed question Posing as a cop is a gross offence yet Martin miraculously escaped prosecution. Worse to this time he allegedly pulled this hoax six weeks after the governor signed legislation toughening penalties for family who impersonate cops and firefighters. Had these details not originate to light in a Sun-Times article, there's a chance Martin could have popp up onward another taxpayer-funded payroll. After all, he has connections. His wife is Zelda Whittler, the falsify County undersheriff, and his brother is a now-retired agent State Police director.

Voter could be forgiven for thinking this goods like a case of the exercise of clout to prove by experiment to put someone above the law.

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