Now that’s what you call playing the Hitler card:
A controversy over pretrial publicity is boiling in Michigan, where embattled trial attorney Geoffrey Fieger is facing scrutiny over television ads he is running while awaiting trial.
At issue is whether Fieger is trying to taint the jury pool by running commercials that, among other things, compare the Bush administration to Nazis, and claim that trial lawyers are under attack from the federal government.
Fieger was indicted last year on charges of illegally funneling $127,000 to former presidential candidate John Edwards in 2004. His trial is set for April.
Earlier this month, a magistrate judge ordered Fieger to discontinue his ads after federal prosecutors expressed concerns that he is trying to taint the jury pool. But Fieger has appealed on First Amendment grounds. A final ruling is due on Wednesday.
Of the dozen Fieger commercials being aired, the one facing the most scrutiny compares the Bush administration to Nazis, and talks about how “they came for the communists … the unionists … the Jews, the gypsies and the Catholics … then they came for the lawyers.”
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