Libby, Dershowitz and Bork in a Valentine heartEvery now and then you read an item in the news that just warms the cockles of your heart. And as I’m sure you know, there’s nothing quite like hot cockles.

It seems that a group of leading lawyers and law professors, among them none other than Alan Dershowitz and Robert Bork, have written an amicus brief, questioning the constitutionality of the appointment of the special prosecutor in the case against Scooter Libby.

Here’s what Judge Reggie Walton wrote to indicate that he’d accept their brief:

It is an impressive show of public service when twelve prominent and distinguished current and former law professors of well-respected schools are able to amass their collective wisdom in the course of only several days to provide their legal expertise to the Court on behalf of a criminal defendant. The Court trusts that this is a reflection of these eminent academics’ willingness in the future to step to the plate and provide like assistance in cases involving any of the numerous litigants, both in this Court and throughout the courts of our nation, who lack the financial means to fully and properly articulate the merits of their legal positions even in instances where failure to do so could result in monetary penalties, incarceration, or worse. The Court will certainly not hesitate to call for such assistance from these luminaries, as necessary in the interests of justice and equity, whenever similar questions arise in the cases that come before it.

That’s right, America. Our judicial system has been saved. We now have a team of Super Friends, a Justice League of America, if you will, ready and able to help whenever anyone is in danger of having their basic right to a fair trial taken from them.

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