In an April 20, 2007 article TPM muckraker reporter Paul Kiel noted:"the federal appeals court released its written opinion on the case.
The prosecution was based on a reading of the law by which "simple violations of administrative rules [by bureaucrats] would become crimes", the judges wrote.
By that interpretation, "it is a federal crime for any official in state or local government to take account of political considerations when deciding how to spend public money" — a "preposterous" idea, they wrote.
The April 11, 2007 edition of TPM Muckraker provides a detailed account of the pressure Biskupic and his office were under from both the White House and Justice Department.
[17] The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel quotes a statement delivered by Biskupic on April 14, 2007 that in part reads:[18] U.S. Representative Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), now a United States senator, called for an investigation in conjunction with this controversy.
[19] In a Washington Post article (May 11, 2007), reporters Dan Eggen and Paul Kane provide updated information on White House and Justice Department staff involvement in pressing complaints about Biskupic and a response from him.
[20] The House Judiciary Committee and its Chairman, John Conyers, were interested in the evolution of the Thompson case Paul Keil of Talking Points Memo reported on September 5, 2007.
[21] In 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice's internal affairs unit cleared Biskupic "of any ethical wrongs in the Georgia Thompson prosecution" after two years of review.