Larry Craig’s attorney seeks adjective removal

In an effort to remove the adjective from his name, an attorney for disgraced U.S. Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, on Wednesday asked a Minnesota appeals court to throw out his plea of guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct, stemming from his widely publicized "wide stance"incident last year in a men’s restroom at Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

Craig himself didn’t appear in the Minnesota Judicial Center courtroom on Wednesday. But the press did:Continued interest in the case was evident from the number of media organizations that were represented (and the number of satellite trucks parked outside the Minnesota Judicial Center).

The court information office sent out a notification three weeks ago, saying that because of interest in the case, the location of the hearing had been moved to the Judicial Center, and that each media organization could send one representative