Scott Horton at the Harper’s magazine blog takes aim at US Atty Stephen Biskupic and calls for possible criminal sanctions for his politically motivated prosecution of Georgia Thompson.

Writes Horton:

And isn’t it curious that after all of this, Mr. Biskupic continues to serve as the U.S. Attorney in Milwaukee? The problem is the pervasive immunity that has been granted U.S. attorneys in their conduct of criminal prosecutions. The Thompson case presents a good reason for visiting that issue and suspending prosecutorial immunity. We need a serious probe of what happened in the Thompson case and we need accountability from all those in the Justice Department who were involved in this gross misadventure. It’s not clear that the center of gravity for this lies in Milwaukee; it might well be with the Public Integrity Unit in Washington, and indeed likely even higher up.###

The explanation for why US Atty Stephen Biskupic's reached out of his district (the Eastern Dist. of Wisconsin) into the city of Madison (a liberal stronghold in the Western Dist. of Wisconsin) in the search for voter fraud is not given in the Capital Times piece that broke Saturday (though the question is suggested):

As part of a push to prosecute voter fraud cases across the country, federal prosecutors in Milwaukee requested the voting rolls for the city of Madison from the November 2004 election, according to documents released to Congressional investigators looking into last year’s firing of eight U.S. Attorneys. 

Why did Biskupic, like he did in the discredited Georgia Thompson prosecution, reach into the Western Dist. when there were not even partisan allegations of voter fraud in Madison like in Milwaukee after 2004?