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I have followed this. The stunning part isn't the parole board (because what would you expect), it's that the appeals court heard the whole thing. ... and didn't vacate the conviction! Clearly the justice system in this case is about a lot of things except actual justice. They are hell bent on killing someone who was convicted on no physical evidence and just the word of a mentally ill person who admitted to commiting the murder, but pointed a finger at Glossip to get him convicted, and now is recanting.

 

I don't know who is MAGA or who isn't or what it really means at this point. But that AG seems like an old school Republican. He did military service as an officer in the air force, worked as a staffer for David Boren (before any of us heard the term MAGA), and got a JD at Georgetown at night. He then tried twice to get elected on his own and succeeed last time.

It looks like he is just trying to do what he knows (and everyone on earth should know) is right. This used to be the baseline behavior for an AG. You want to put people behind bars, you'll even slide, twist, bend a lot to do it. But when you get presented with something like this, you do the right thing and try to get the conviction vacated.

 

You always have to ask what the angle is. ... but my guess would be that the silence has more to do with Anheuser Busch being a major political donor (almost entirely to Republicans) than it has to do with a relatively small stock holding.