Any legal eagles out there...

...who know what constitutes an illegal effort to influence a judicial decision under Washington law? This passage from a piece by Sandeep Kaushik in The Stranger got me wondering...

On Wednesday, Gregoire will be inaugurated governor. Whether she stays governor will be decided by the courts, not the public. But as Vance points out, "Even judges are human beings. They read newspapers too."

Sure they do. And being human, they might be influenced. But when someone openly admits that they're spending thousands of dollars to gin up a controversy in order to deliberately influence the decision of a judge, well, if it's legal, it shouldn't be.

At any rate, it seems that Vance's bald admission that he's at the head of an effort to intimidate the bench should be pretty offensive to every judge in the state, and put any decision in favor of a Mulligan for Rossi in doubt.