Jefferson Indictment Aside, Speaker Pelosi Has Been on a Roll

By Norman Ornstein
Roll Call Contributing Writer

June 6, 2007

First, a few words on Rep. William Jefferson’s (D-La.) indictment. The long delay before the indictment was almost certainly shaped by the ill-advised, rash and blundering raid by the Justice Department and FBI on Jefferson’s office in May 2006. Had that raid been done with any sensitivity to the Constitution and its Speech or Debate Clause, the evidence in the office would have been available to use much earlier.

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