Two weeks ago, Idaho Sen. Larry Craig said he wouldn’t be attending this year’s national Republican Convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul, which is set for Sept. 1-4, prompting lots of chortling in the blogosphere about how the senator won’t be “returning to the scene of the crime,” referring to his 2007 arrest in a sex sting at a Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport men’s restroom. Today, however, media advisories went out about logistical arrangements for the upcoming oral arguments in Craig’s appeal of a lower court’s refusal to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea to a reduced charge of disorderly conduct stemming from that arrest. The date and place for the appeal arguments in Larry Edwin Craig vs. State of Minnesota? Sept. 10 in St. Paul. So Craig may well be returning there – but it’d be six days after the GOP convention closes.

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