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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 12:56 PM
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This SUCKS! Texas Court of Appeals (D) Justice NOT allowed to dissent (regarding Tom Delay case)
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When will this cadre of criminals be held accountable for their RAPE of the Constitution?
http://www.heralddemocrat.com/hd/News/Texas/d0659-BC-TX-ElectionInvestiga-10-14-0456
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AUSTIN -- A state appeals court justice wants the Texas Supreme Court to intervene after she says Chief Justice Ken Law refused to file her dissent in a case involving two associates of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

Justice Jan Patterson, a Democrat on the Austin-based 3rd Court of Appeals , claims that Law, a Republican who's up for re-election, blocked the filing of her dissent to a ruling last week that overruled a motion asking Justice Alan Waldrop to step aside in the money-laundering case involving DeLay's associates, the Austin American-Statesman reports in its Tuesday editions.

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Waldrop wrote an opinion in August that upheld the constitutionality of the law on money laundering but warned that the prosecutors had a fatal flaw in their case, a view that two trial judges and one other appellate judges have disagreed with.

Waldrop, Law and a third Republican justice, Robert Pemberton, wrote that the charges against DeLay and his associates should be dismissed because they used a check, not cash, in their transaction. Waldrop argued that the law -- before it was changed in 2005 -- did not cover checks during the 2002 election.


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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 01:01 PM
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1. Any chance in hell he'll lose the election?
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Horse with no Name Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-15-08 01:03 PM
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2. One can always hope?
Seriously.
This IS Texas...I wouldn't bet on anything.
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