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In a searing political memoir, former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman explodes the parable of an unbiased U.S. justice machine. He will have to recognize. Arguably probably the most a success and promising flesh presser in up to date Alabama historical past, his 3-decade profession in public provider ran afoul of Republican combatants who used the federal judicial machine to take him out of rivalry in Alabama and nationally. Siegelman in the long run was once sentenced to 88 months in federal jail and served 5 years, with lengthy stretches in solitary confinement all the way through which he was once a literal political prisoner, bring to a halt from interviews and out of doors touch. Stealing Our Democracy unearths how Siegelman’s enemies ― together with politicized prosecutors and a corrupt pass judgement on ― stripped him of his freedom, his profession, and his legislation license, and disadvantaged him of his friends and family. His is an intensely private account of the way our machine can fail and be abused for political greed. And if it would occur to him, he writes, it could occur to any people, specifically in an technology while Donald Trump is abusing his energy and the use of the Division of Justice as a political weapon to shield himself and to break folks who oppose him. Siegelman attracts on his enjoy as a public servant and an inmate to turn why the country’s prisons should be reformed at the side of our machine of indictment, prosecution, and sentencing. In spite of everything, Stealing Our Democracy gives a blueprint for citizens in 2020 of what should be performed to keep democracy.
