Edwards’ Ninth Life

Mickey Kaus Columnist
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What do you bet that if John Edwards is acquitted–even if a guilty verdict is reversed on appeal–he’ll try to bill that result as a “vindication” that lets him revive at least a small part of his previous career? That’s one of the main problems with this misguided proscution. Not only does it potential criminalize vast, vaguely defined swaths of previously “gray area” behavior. It gives Edwards his best chance yet (in his own mind, at least) to again put himself in a position where his proven bad judgment can influence the lives of others. … P.S.: This is why I disagree with Bonnie Goldstein, who thinks Edwards has “suffered enough.”  I don’t know about that, but I wouldn’t contest the point if it was clear to Edwards as well as everyone else that his future as anything other than a local real estate lawyer was dead, dead, dead. Unfortunately, thanks to his prosecutors, it isn’t. ….

Mickey Kaus