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This joke practically writes itself, but a motion for an enlarged brief has been filed in the Sen. Larry Craig case.
Truth be told, it’s the Metropolitan Airports Commission, not Senator Craig, with the apparent problem in its brief size. The MAC says it needs the extra room to address all the novel issues raised by [...]

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In what can only be described as a case of very strange bedfellows, the American Civil Liberties Union has filed a brief supporting Idaho Republican Senator Larry Craig’s petition to withdraw his guilty plea.
The ACLU argues that “[c]onvicting someone of a crime on the basis of conduct which may not be made a crime is [...]

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It looks as if famed Washington D.C. attorney Billy Martin (a.k.a. William Martin) may be making a personal appearance in Minnesota. He’s been admitted pro hac vice to represent (who else?) U.S. Senator Larry Craig. Martin’s most recent famous client is Michael Vick, who is now residing in a minimum security prison in Leavenworth Kansas [...]

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The Pioneer Press reports that when it asked Minneapolis attorney Thomas Kelly for comment on the appellate brief he had filed for his client, U.S. Senator Larry Craig, Kelly responded:
“Never drive over to St. Paul to have a filing with your puppy in the car. She’s barking at every strange sound and smell.”
Craig, of course, [...]

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Idaho Senator Larry Craig’s statement of the case in his appeal from the denial of his motion to withdraw his guilty plea to a disorderly conduct charge is available here.

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I saw Matt Lauer’s exclusive interview last night with Idaho Senator Larry Craig on NBC. Well, I saw most of it, anyway. Unfortunately, it was on opposite the Red Sox’s playoff game against the Indians, so I kept flicking back and forth. (The Sox lost, by the way. Uggh.)
Between channel hops, I was [...]

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Hennepin County District Court Judge Charles Porter has turned back Larry Craig’s motion to withdraw his guilty plea.
Craig, for those of you just back from Mars, is the Idaho senator who was busted for disorderly conduct in a men’s room at the airport. He mailed in his guilty plea and then attempted to rescind [...]

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If it’s true that we learn something new every day, then many of us learned lots of new things during the recent kerfuffle over U.S. Sen. Larry Craig’s arrest in June at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. For instance:
* It’s not a crime to make a pass at someone in a public place, but it could [...]

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