Little ‘ol plain-folks, Joe six-pack Palin has tried to stop the troopergate report citing irreparable harm to her and all of Alaska: “The plaintiffs and Alaskans will suffer irreparable harm if the investigation at issue continues and if the resulting investigative report issues as planned on Oct. 10, 2008.”

People who have broken the law can always say that an investigation will do them “irreparable harm”. However, it is not the investigation, nor the report that will do harm to Palin. Instead, it is her own actions that led to the investigation that have caused her harm. The investigation, which was initiated after a bi-partisan, unanimous vote is simply a natural consequence of Palin’s own actions.

We recently learned that Sarah Palin hopes to model herself after Dick Cheney.  With her secrecy, ignoring subpoenas, using her office to punish enemies, and constant spin instead of ever adhering to the facts means that she has that part of Cheney’s character down: a lying, lawless politician who answers to no one.

At one point, Sarah Palin said that no member of her staff had applied pressure to get Wooten fired.  That was her position until she found out that Frank Bailey, who works on Palin’s staff, had his conversation urging the firing of Wooten audiotaped.

The Alaska Supreme Court has agreed to hear an emergency appeal from lawyers seeking to shut down the Legislature’s Troopergate investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin.

The action comes the day after Anchorage Superior Court Judge Peter Michalski threw out their lawsuit attempting to halt the Legislature’s investigation of what’s known as Troopergate. The suit was filed on behalf of a group of Republican state legislators who oppose the investigation.

In a written order issued about 4:30 p.m. today, the Supreme Court said it would hear oral arguments on the appeal at 3 p.m. Wednesday, and agreed to rule by the end of the next Thursday.

The urgency on timing is because Steve Branchflower, the investigator hired by the Legislative Council, is set to release his report next Friday. Branchflower is looking into Palin’s dismissal of her public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, and whether she improperly pressured him to fire a state trooper divorced from her sister.

Texas-based Liberty Legal Institute and Anchorage attorney Kevin Clarkson, representing the group of anti-investigation legislators, filed the emergency appeal.

“The plaintiffs and Alaskans will suffer irreparable harm if the investigation at issue continues and if the resulting investigative report issues as planned on Oct. 10, 2008,” they wrote in their appeal.

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