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Can state prosecutors indict Bush?
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Lots of questions and hand-wringing about whether the Obama Administration will prosecute Bush Administration officials for war crimes and other corruption. But I'm wondering whether there might be other avenues. State courts are courts of general jurisdiction: they handle federal claims all ...
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Matthew Yglesias:  A State Prosecutor for Bush?

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A State Prosecutor for Bush?
Matthew Yglesias — ... Jonathan Zasloff speculates about the idea that an ambitious state attorney general might be able to find a way to indict Bush administration officials for crimes related to torture and so forth. My guess is that an effort along those lines would ultimately fail, but it might well be a useful exercise for the country. Among other things, it would make it difficult for the Obama administration to do the expedient thing and just kind of ignore the issue for a few months and hope everyone forgets about it. ...

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