Congress.gov biography:
"JEFFERSON, William Jennings, a Representative
from Louisiana; born in Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La., March
14, 1947; G.W. Griffin High School, Lake Providence, La.; B.A., Southern
University and Agricultural & Mechanical College, Baton Rouge, La.,
1969; J.D., Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1972; lawyer, private
practice; law clerk for United States District Judge Alvin B. Rubin, Eastern
District of Louisiana, 1972-1973; legislative assistant to United States
Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, 1973-1975; member of the Louisiana
state senate, 1979-1990; candidate for mayor of New Orleans in 1982 and
1986; elected as a Democrat to the One Hundred Second and to the eight
succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1991-present)."
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WILLIAM JEFFERSON News:
20080331
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William
J Jefferson -
 Louisiana
-  Government
-  FBI
Investigation -  Politics
- "Supreme
Court Won't Intervene in Jefferson Raid Case." ...
"The Supreme Court today turned down a government request to reverse a
lower court finding that an FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] raid
on [Louisiana Democratic Representative] Rep. William J. Jefferson's congressional
office violated the Constitution." ... "A panel of the U.S. [United States]
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled in August that the seizure
of printed materials and computer records violated the "speech or debate"
clause of the Constitution, which protects members of Congress from questioning
by members of the executive branch about their legislative work." ... "The
disputed records in Jefferson's case do not figure prominently in his indictment,
and prosecutors have said they can proceed without them." -By
Robert Barnes -WashingtonPost
20070907
-
 Craig
-  Vitter
-  Stevens
-  DeLay
-  Ney
-  Cunningham
-  Sherwood
-  Renzi
-  Doolittle
- Jefferson
- Politicians
-  Lawmakers
-  Homosexual
-  Idaho
- Louisiana
-  Alaska
-  Texas
-  Ohio
-  California
-  Pennsylvania
-  Arizona
- 2008
Election - "House
G.O.P.'s History Could Repeat in Senate." ... "The
embarrassing [Idaho Republican Senator] Larry Craig episode combined sex
and the justice system – always a potent political mix and one reason the
Republican leadership moved so swiftly to jettison Mr. Craig." ... "Already,
Mr. Craig is the star of a Web
video from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee featuring a
lineup of recent Republican scandals being shown to the tune of the “Bad
Boys” theme song from the television show “Cops.” It seeks to ridicule
Republican claims to hold the moral high ground." ... "Mr. Craig’s guilty
plea to a sexually related disorderly conduct charge only served to remind
people about Mr. [Louisiana Republican Senator] Vitter’s [alleged prostitution]
case – and prompt accusations of a double standard since Republicans took
no action against the Louisiana lawmaker for his heterosexual incident
compared to Mr. Craig’s homosexual one." ... "Republicans can point to
the indictment of Louisiana Democrat[ic Representative] William Jefferson,
but Democrats can counter with the names of Senators Craig, Vitter and
[Alaska Republican Senator Ted] Stevens not to mention those of former
Representatives [Texas Republican] Tom DeLay, [Ohio Republican] Bob Ney,
[California Republican] Duke Cunningham and [Pennsylvania Republican] Don
Sherwood." ... "Representative Rick Renzi of Arizona, another Republican
under investigation, has already announced he will not seek re-election
[in 2008] and top aides to [Republican] Representative John Doolittle of
California, a former member of the Republican leadership, were called before
a grand jury this week." -By Carl Hulse
-NYTimes
20070605
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 TV
- Race
- Politics
- William
J Jefferson - Louisiana
-  Michigan
- "Fox
News apologizes for tape goof." ... "Fox News Channel
apologized on-air Tuesday for running tape of a different congressman while
reporting Monday on the indictment of [Louisiana Democratic Representative]
Rep. William J. Jefferson on bribery charges." ... "The network ran footage
of House Judiciary Committee Chairman [Michigan Democratic Representative]
John Conyers of Michigan instead of Jefferson. Both congressmen are black."
... "The apology apparently wasn't accepted by Conyers." ... ""Fox News
has a history of inappropriate on-air mistakes that are neither fair, nor
balanced," he said Tuesday. "This type of disrespect for people of color
should no longer be tolerated. I am personally offended by the network's
complete disregard for accuracy in reporting and lackluster on-air apology.""
-By David Bauder -AP
via -Yahoo
20070605
-
William
J Jefferson - Louisiana
-
 Money
- Politics
- "House
approves speedy Jefferson probe." ... "The House
ordered a speedy internal investigation that could oust indicted [Louisiana
Democratic Representative] Rep. William J. Jefferson from Congress before
his bribery trial." ... "Mindful of anti-corruption sentiment among voters
last November, the House passed two resolutions Tuesday that require the
ethics committee to investigate charges more quickly than in the past."
... "Jefferson, meanwhile, resigned his seat on the Small Business Committee
in response to his indictment on federal charges of taking more than $500,000
in bribes. Democrats already had moved to take that seat from him. Jefferson
admitted no wrongdoing." ... "The nine-term congressman had few allies
among leaders of his own party." -By Laurie Kellman
with contributions by Larry Margasak -AP
via -Chron
20060529
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Noteworthy
- Law
- Politics
-
 History
- Louisiana
- "Separation
Of Powers: Fight brewing." ... "What's being billed
as an attempt to defuse a confrontation may instead show that the White
House is spoiling for a constitutional fight over separation of powers."
... "Surely no president would stand for congressional security folks rifling
through White House files in search of damning material." ... "The Constitution's
so-called speech and debate clause has a long and storied history that
can be traced back to the English Bill of Rights of 1689, according to
research compiled on findlaw.com. In United States v. Brewster 1972, the
Supreme Court explained that while a congressman taking a bribe was not
immune from prosecution, the clause was "not written into the Constitution
simply for the personal or private benefit of members of Congress, but
to protect the integrity of the legislative process by insuring the independence
of individual legislators."" ... "The criminal case looks bad for [Louisiana
Democrat] Jefferson. There is a videotape of him accepting $100,000. Officers
found $90,000 in cash stashed in his home freezer. Indeed, prosecutors
would seem to have had plenty on Jefferson without risking a constitutional
confrontation." ... "But even if Jefferson is proved corrupt, the larger
concern is the harm that could be done by a corrupt executive seeking to
discredit or intimidate a congressional enemy."
-SeattlePI.NWsource
20060524
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Political
- Government
- Police
- Louisiana
- John
Boehner
- Ohio
- "F.B.I.
Raid Divides G.O.P. Lawmakers and White House." ...
"After years of quietly acceding to the Bush administration's assertions
of executive power, the Republican-led Congress hit a limit this weekend."
... "Resentment boiled among senior Republicans for a second day on Tuesday
after a team of warrant-bearing agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation
turned up at a closed House office building on Saturday evening, demanded
entry to the office of a lawmaker and spent the night going through his
files." ... "The episode prompted cries of constitutional foul from Republicans
— even though the lawmaker in question, Representative William J. Jefferson
of Louisiana, is a Democrat whose involvement in a bribery case has made
him an obvious partisan political target." ... "[Republican] Representative
John A. Boehner of Ohio, the House majority leader, predicted that the
separation-of-powers conflict would go to the Supreme Court. "I have to
believe at the end of the day it is going to end up across the street,"
Mr. Boehner told reporters gathered in his conference room, which looks
out on the Capitol plaza and the court building." ... "A court challenge
would place all three branches of government in the fray over whether the
obscure "speech and debate" clause of the Constitution, which offers some
legal immunity for lawmakers in the conduct of their official duties, could
be interpreted to prohibit a search by the executive branch on Congressional
property." -By Carl Hulse
-NYTimes
-
Government
- Police
- Politics
- History
- Louisiana
-
 Illinois
- "Speaker
Hastert Protests to Bush Over Raid: House Speaker
Dennis Hastert Protests to President Bush Over FBI Raid on Congressman's
Office." ... "The FBI's raid on a congressman's office is rippling through
Capitol Hill, with majority Republicans in the House complaining to President
Bush and predicting a constitutional showdown in the Supreme Court." ...
"Lawmakers predict this may be the beginning a long dispute over the FBI's
search of [Louisiana Democrat] Rep. William Jefferson's office last weekend.
Historians say it was the first raid of a representative's quarters in
Congress' 219 years." ... "House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., was so
angry that he complained to Bush about the FBI's conduct." ... ""My opinion
is that they took the wrong path," Hastert said of the FBI, after meeting
with Bush in the White House. "They need to back up, and we need to go
from there."" (1, 2)
-By Laurie Kellman with contributions by David Espo
and Mark Sherman -AP
via -ABCNEWS.com
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