The lawmakers of today

After spending a great deal of our class discussion talking about the way judges decide cases, what drives them to make the decisions they make and how laws are passed in the legislature I would just like to bring to light the recently decided case involving Vincent Fumo. For those who are unaware, Vincent Fumo was one of the most powerful state senators here in Pennsylvania for over 30 years. Fumo, who was responsible for making laws and representing us as citizens of this state, was instead misappropriating millions of dollars to benefit his lavish lifestyle. Fumo was sentenced this week on 137 counts of corruption and counts of obstruction of justice for trying to delete emails and other conversations to cover up his guilt. He was sentenced to only 55 months in prison. If a man like this, that we have been trusting for so many years is capable of stealing such large amounts of money from us, it makes you wonder about the motives of so many other political figures in all realms of government.