Posted on 06/10/2014 7:01:36 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2
A Texas court ruled Thursday to overturn the conviction of former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), who was found guilty of money laundering in 2010.
According to KHOU 11 and the Associated Press, the Third Court of Appeals in Austin said the case's evidence was "legally insufficient to sustain DeLay's convictions," formally acquitting the former congressman on charges of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering.
(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.com ...
LOL@ the HuffnPuff link - glad DeLay was finally vindicated, though.
Well that didn’t take long to clear his name ...Politics sure is blood sport
The idea of DeLay is particular appealing to me in that he was the one guy the Libs targeted and set up, illegal though that was. He would be right back in their faces, and without any election or fundraising issues to “investigate”. He would be free to pursue a vigorous Conservative agenda, and he knows how to get things done.
Sorry to rain on your parade but no, he’s not. He will not seek it and if he did he would not get it.
It’s speculative nonsense that the Speaker doesn’t have to be a member of the House, it’s not been ruled on. Frankly the whole notion of a non-member Speaker is absurd, it makes no sense at all. People just think they’re being clever by exploiting a hidden gray area of the constitution.
Despite frequent obsession with the idea every time a Speaker election comes around there is a ZERO percent chance it will ever happen.
Delay, a relic of the past who hardly did a perfect job and left under a cloud, would be an exceedingly poor choice even if the idea wasn’t ridiculous.
You want Boner gone? Someone will have to convince an actual member of the next Congress to actually man up and challenge him (no one did in 2013). No magic hero is gonna fall from the sky.
We could really use “The Hammer” right now,,esp in the Senate!
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals will hear Tom DeLay case -
By: Associated Press 03/19/2014 02:40 PM
The overturned conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay
will be reviewed by the highest criminal court in Texas.
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals on Wednesday agreed to hear the case after
prosecutors in Austin appealed a ruling last fall that threw out a
2010 money laundering conviction against DeLay.
No timetable was immediately set. -
See more at: Texas Court of Criminal Appeals will hear Tom DeLay case - See more at: http://austin.twcnews.com/content/news/298202/texas-court-of-criminal-appeals-will-hear-tom-delay-case#sthash.tL2h8GA2.dpuf
It’s about time!!! The prosecutor in this case did some serious grand jury shopping. Delay should never have been indicted in the first place. Now, off to the DUmp to witness the weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth...
Try Gowdy for Atty Gen'l
Col. West for Defense
Good news!
That's what I been saying for almost two years. Its not a pretty job and I bet next year gets even worse.
The irony here was that in 2011 when the talk radio crowd finally soured on Boehner (because he was Speaker ) a rumor was floating around that Cantor would challenge Boehner from the right if he p...ed off the Tea party.
It went that the conservatives in the House trusted Cantor.
But that was ~ three years ago.
Cantor always sounded gay to me and I couldn't understand what the GOP house kept the same leadership after the 2008 loss. It made no sense to me to keep them on after that.
The Hammer got things done. He should run for election again.
“Which office do I go to to get my reputation back?” ~Raymond J. Donovan
He’d be a great choice. And we get to pick a new Majority Leader as well.
How about Raul Labrador (ID)
Tom does his stuff best in the background. He started in ‘06 linking zero and communists with a lexus-nexus type website.
Let the man work.
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