# Don Siegelman

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No Oath. No Cameras. No Consequences. — The Karl Rove Deal

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Eight months after his release on appeal, Governor Don Siegelman watched Karl Rove spend two years fighting a congressional subpoena — until Rove finally cut a deal. In this episode, Siegelman and host Nick Collado break down what actually happened, using transcripts Siegelman tracked down himself.…

Alabama Executed Jeffery Lee

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Alabama Executed Jeffery Lee. His Own Jury Voted for Life. | Me and The Gov Episode 7 On September 17, 2026, Alabama executed Jeffery Lee — known to guards and fellow inmates as "J-Love" for the calm he brought to death row. His jury voted for life without parole. A judge, running for reelection, o…

Just Christmas Cards

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Karl Rove Said They Just Exchanged Christmas Cards. The Record Says Otherwise. | Me and The Gov Episode 6 This entire episode lives inside one exchange from Karl Rove's actual July 30, 2009 congressional interview. Governor Don Siegelman and host Nick Collado read the exchange almost word for word …

Devil In Disguise

Devil in Disguise | Me and The Gov Episode 8 For the first time in this series, we bring on a guest who isn't Governor Siegelman himself. Tommy Gallion is a lifelong Republican, a senior Montgomery attorney, and one of the most connected political figures in Alabama history — with no track record o…

"I Was Working for the Sith Lords": A Fired U.S. Attorney Tells His Story | Me and The Gov Episode 9

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"I Was Working for the Sith Lords": A Fired U.S. Attorney Tells His Story | Me and The Gov Episode 9 In 2001, David Iglesias was everything the Republican Party said it wanted in a future leader — a Navy JAG officer, an evangelical, a combat veteran, personally sponsored by his own senator. By 2006…

Governor Jim Doyle on the Woman Who Went to Prison Instead of Him | Me and The Gov Episode 10

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Governor Jim Doyle on the Woman Who Went to Prison Instead of Him | Me and The Gov Episode 10 In 2006, Georgia Thompson — a career Wisconsin civil servant Governor Jim Doyle had never even met — was convicted and sent to federal prison over a $1 million travel contract. No bribe. No kickback. No mo…

Professor Bennett Gershman, and What Prosecutorial Misconduct Looks Like | Me & The Gov Episode 11

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Most people picture prosecutorial misconduct as one rogue lawyer hiding one document. Professor Bennett Gershman, a former New York prosecutor and author of the treatise Prosecutorial Misconduct, says that when it’s deliberate and coordinated, it looks like what happened to Governor Don Siegelman. …

Political Prisoner #1: Scott Horton on Karl Rove and the Siegelman Case | Me and The Gov Episode 12

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Scott Horton, a lawyer and Harper’s Magazine writer, kept the Siegelman case alive in print when almost no national outlet would touch it. Governor Siegelman credits his reporting with helping drive the wave of editorials that followed, and says the New York Times alone ran 17. In this episode, Hor…

Three Sets of Results in One Night: The 2002 Baldwin County Election | Me and The Gov Episode 13

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On election night 2002, Don Siegelman was declared the winner of the Alabama governor’s race. By morning, the numbers had changed. In the first of a multi-part breakdown of the documentary “Atticus v. The Architect,” filmmaker Steve Wimberly joins Governor Siegelman and host Nick Collado to go thro…