Is it really worthwhile to point this out? I lived in Oregon for about 22 years and I have never heard of Malheur County. That is because it is in that part of Oregon that weirdly borders Nevada and somehow found a way to be in the godforsaken Mountain Time Zone. With a population of 30,000 spread over 10,000 square miles, I doubt that Malheur County would ever have a problem with jurors who tweet excessively, and it may not even have reception for any handheld devices other than satellite phones.
[Malheur County, by the way, borders Harney County, which was named for William S. Harney, a cavalry officer who was involved in the Pig War, which was a dispute over the San Juans between the U.S. and Britain. The war only produced one casualty: a pig.]
And notice that that article was re-posted on Josh Marquis's blog, probably because the article quotes Marquis a few times. Marquis is the DA in the slightly more populous and influential Clatsop County (35,000 people; they filmed Goonies there). Over the last few years, Marquis has rather blatantly attempted to launch a Democratic political career by commenting nationally on every goddamn legal issue that makes the news.
But he can barely hide his true ideological leanings. Scalia cited one of his pro-death penalty articles, and this is how he met his wife:
Marquis and Cindy Price met in 1995 on a Court TV-sponsored AOL message board devoted to the then raging O.J. Simpson trial. Cindy was a former analyst at a conservative think tank. Josh Marquis was a liberal Democrat. The one thing they had in common was their belief in Simpson’s guilt. Marquis, Price and other members of the pro-prosecution group split off into a private e-mail group. When about 50 members of the group met in California, Marquis and Price came face to face and immediately hit it off. From this point, the e-mail messages turned romantic and they married in 1996.)
Interestingly, Marquis's biggest naysayer has been an attorney who parlayed his job working for the Brooklyn Public Defender into a bestselling book, a teaching gig, and a TV show staring Zach Morris, which seems to be the sort of thing Marquis is gunning for, if he never gets to run for senator or governor.
2 comments:
Omigod....a politician who promotes himself. Horrifying!
This guy must make an awful lot of phone calls to get quoted in the New York Times. Isn't that how it works?
OMG! A wife that does nothing but haunt the web looking for every posting that mentions her husband as they both grasp frantically for any way to get out of the HELL HOLE they created in Clatsop County.
Oh HELL YAH, Marquis spends his whole day on the phone. He sure as hell ain't in the court room. In Oregon the average DA has 1 deputy da (or assistant da, what have you) per 10,000-12,000 pop. In Clatsop County our DA has 1 ada per 5,400!!! He says that's because in summer month we swell to four times our normal population. SO WHAT??? That means four times the SPEEDING tickets, fish and wildlife tickets, nothing to do with his dumbass office! PLUS 4x35,000 still only would put our county at 135,000 pop!
This guy is raping our county. And now he's gunning for US Attorney of Oregon so he can rape the whole state!
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