THEY TOLD ME THAT IF GEORGE W. BUSH WERE RE-ELECTED, lawyers who challenged the powers-that-be would be subjected to secret disbarment proceedings.

And they were right! (Via Michael Silence, who has much more). The lawyer in question, Herb Moncier, has been instrumental in exposing a lot of political corruption in the area. Whether or not there’s a basis — and the secrecy will encourage some people to think the worst — a lot of people are going to see this as a payback, one implicating the federal judiciary. It seems as if this would have been better handled in the open. I don’t know if the rules permitted that, though it’s hard to see why they shouldn’t.