I laughed out loud when I read this article in the Coeur d’Alene Press skewspaper today.  The laughter was provoked by these lines:  “Coeur d’Alene defense attorney Michael Palmer said the way the Constitution currently reads is problematic.  Palmer said, “Our clients are being supervised by people who don’t have the (constitutional) authority to do it.”

So apparently Idaho’s defense attorneys and judges have been ignoring the “problematic” wording of the Idaho Constitution and worked out a deal to let the attorneys’ clients be supervised by people who don’t have the (constitutional) authority to do it.

Don’t like the Idaho Constitution?  Doesn’t work for you?  No problem.  Just ignore it.  The lawyers don’t care, and apparently the judges don’t care.  It’s the Idaho way.

This morning’s local skewspaper, the Coeur d’Alene Press, carried an announcement that on October 8 the City Council will have an open meeting to discuss accepting a white elephant that the Idaho Transportation Department desperately wants to unload on some sucker dumb enough to take it.  (more…)