I heard a new story about Gonzales this morning on Imus from they guy that runs the Congressional Quarterly. Apparently, when Bush was the gubner of TX, he made a point of telling everyone that he, as a man of the people, would serve on jury duty whenever called upon to do so. Sure enough, he was selected for a case. Turned out (gulp) to be a drunk driving case.
So in the course of fulfilling his civic obligations, he was presented with a questionairre to complete. Well, one of the questions was "...have you ever been convicted of driving while intoxicated?" Uhhhhhh... drops pencil... Enter Gonzales who, through some fancy legal construction, made the case that
[oversimplication of legal-schmegal] since Bush, as gubner, was able to grant paroles and pardons, Bush should not serve on a jury
[/oversimplication]. It worked and Bush was exempted.
The questionairre was never filled out
