An appellate court panel could decide as early as today whether to grant Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's request to stop the release of documents linked to the text message scandal.
City attorneys filed a request Thursday, hoping to at least temporarily halt Wayne County Circuit Judge Robert Colombo Jr.'s ruling Tuesday to release all documents pertaining to a secret deal to keep private hundreds of text messages. The messages the mayor and his former chief of staff, Christine Beatty, exchanged showed they lied under oath at a trial last summer about having a romantic relationship.
I don't really know what sort of incriminating items might be among these documents, or what could even happen if there are such items. But maybe progress in this case will be progress for the City of Detroit--away from scam artists like Kilpatrick. (And not a very slick scam artist, at that.)
The paper defends itself here against verbal attacks on it by Kilpatrick. Don'tcha know it's a violation of civil rights to obtain text messages that have been sought in court for years and which incriminate a public official of perjury and who knows what else!In going after the media and the Free Press, the mayor is trying to blame the messenger of the bad news when he's the one who created it.
We've expected this. It's a common tactic for people in trouble of their own making.
Precisely. But it works. (Remember Ken Starr?) Anyway, the Freep provides a handy timeline for the scandal.
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