TTAG reader TP writes:
The now former NYS Assemblyman Sheldon Silver (D, Manhattan), one of the three men responsible for shepherding the NYS SAFE Act through the expedited passage through the NYS legislature, is found guilty on all charges of extortion and several kinds of fraud. The second person, NYS Senator Dean Skelos (R, Nassau County), was arrested and is currently on trial for bribery and extortion. What does that tell you about people who are charged with protecting (or in this case, trampling) our constitutionally protected rights? Unfortunately, these laws cannot be found invalid because of the misdeeds of those in power at the time…