Bye Bye Delay, No Seat For You...
Monday, December 05, 2005
AUSTIN, TexasA judge dismissed the conspiracy charges Monday against Rep. Tom DeLay but refused to throw out the money-laundering counts, dashing the Texas congressman's hopes for now of reclaiming his post as House majority leader. Judge Pat Priest, who is presiding over the case against the Republican, issued the ruling after a hearing late last month in which DeLay's attorney argued that the indictment was fatally flawed.
When he was indicted in September, DeLay was required under House rules to relinquish the leadership post he had held since early 2003. While Monday's ruling was a partial victory for DeLay, he cannot reclaim his post because he remains under indictment.
"The court's decision to dismiss Ronnie Earle's numerous charges against Mr. DeLay underscores just how baseless and politically motivated the charges were," DeLay spokesman Kevin Madden said, referring to the Democratic district attorney who brought the case.
"Mr. DeLay is very encouraged by the swift progress of the legal proceedings and looks forward to his eventual and absolute exoneration based on the facts and the law."
DeLay and two Republican fundraisers, John Colyandro and Jim Ellis, are accused of illegally funneling $190,000 in corporate donations to 2002 Republican candidates for the Texas Legislature. Under Texas law, corporate money cannot be directly used for political campaigns, but it can be used for administrative purposes.
In asking that the case be thrown out, DeLay lawyer Dick DeGuerin argued that one of the charges _ conspiracy to violate the Texas election code _ did not even take effect until September 2003, a year after the alleged offenses occurred.
Prosecutors, however, said the crime of conspiracy was already on the books, and could be applied to the election code even though such uses were not explicitly in state law at the time.
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Doesn't look like Delay will be returning to his previous post as Majority leader, he will be too busy defending himself in a court of law. It sucks that the conspiracy charge was thrown out but that would have been harder to prove than the money laundering ones and we still have his involvement with Abramoff that will keep him down and out for good. I have a feeling that his own district won't re-elect him and they will kick him to the curb. Lets see if his Jesus buddies will come to his defense or if they will stay away, far away. Its coming down and its beautiful to watch the republicscum party fall to its knees. Delay out, next stop Cheney, Rummy, Rove and Frist. There are others that will fall but getting the big guns will be a sight to see.
Posted by mardenhill 12/05/2005 07:21:00 PM
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