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By Wally EdgeFrom the Democratic side, there are calls for GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin to release e-mails sent to her husband from her private e-mail account. These demands are part of a state probe of Palin's firing of Alaska's Public Safety Commissioner. This is not dissimilar to ongoing litigation in New Jersey, where Republicans want Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine to release his personal e-mails to Carla Katz, who was the head of the state’s largest public employee union and the Governor’s girlfriend.
Corzine has refused to release the e-mails, arguing that they are personal and would violate his right to privacy. His spokesmen say that the lawsuit was politically motivated and dismissed it as a Republican tactic to embarrass the Governor for political gain.
It will be fascinating to see if Corzine comes to the defense of Palin on the e-mail issue. And it will be equally as interesting to see if GOP State Chairman Tom Wilson, who brought the suit seeking the release of Corzine’s e-mails, wants Palin to show hers.
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This is a valid response that came from one of our readers
Your analogy of Katz/Corzine to Palins is funny but flawed. The premise of confidentiality in a MARRIAGE is to foster free and open communication between married people. Not to foster free and private communications between labor leaders.
Re: privilege
...But Sarah Palin is claiming Executive Privilege as related to these emails, not some sort of Marital Privilege.
http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=8802680
By her own admission, she conducted state business from her private Yahoo email account. Just like Karl Rove. Just like Jon Corzine.
Whether the recipient was her husband (or a labor leader?) seems largely irrelevant as related to these communications.
...And I don't think its entirely clear that these communications would be confidential under any marriage privilege either. At the very least, they would be reviewed by the judge "in camera" to determine their relevancy.