Delay asks Justice Scalia to remove him from ballot.
By on Aug 7th, 2006 at 5:09 pm
Delay asks Justice Scalia to remove him from ballot.
“The Texas Republican party asked the Supreme Court on Monday to block an appeals court ruling that says the name of indicted former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay must appear on the November ballot…The case was routed to Justice Antonin Scalia, who handles appeals from the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.”
UPDATE: Scalia denies DeLay’s appeal. That was fast.
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Oh no not Scalia.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:13 pmCheck out the UPDATE.
Crash and burn Tommy boy!
August 7th, 2006 at 5:15 pmOh no now what Tom, ask the decider himself to “just do something”.
Cornered animals are scary, get ready for who knows what.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:16 pmNick Lampson for Congress in TX-22
http://www.lampson.com/
August 7th, 2006 at 5:17 pm#3
Quick! Somebody grab a medal!
August 7th, 2006 at 5:17 pmAwe c’mon Tom you wanted to be on the Primary, and Sug-Landers just love you still, don’t they?
August 7th, 2006 at 5:17 pmlet me guess the outcome of this one
If Scalia can hand a PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION to the Rethugs a simple Delay request should be no problem……
August 7th, 2006 at 5:18 pmBirds of a feather flock together. DeLay and Scalia certainly add credibility to that old saying. Watch for Scalia to stay reverse lower court decision and rule in DeLay’s favor.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:18 pmGreat, so now I’m gonna have to live with it when my fellow Texans re-elect him… Thanks loads…
August 7th, 2006 at 5:19 pmOooops. Wrong kind of celebration. The medal can come later.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:19 pmChrist, what took so long?!!!!
August 7th, 2006 at 5:20 pmUhhhh…people, read the UPDATE.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:20 pmI can hear it now. Scalia will be accused of being a left-wing activist judge and slave to the “Democrat Party”.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:22 pmOf course he shot it down. Neocons won’t stand for anything by themselves. They only talk tough when they are surrounded by a pack.
That or Alzheimers is making Scalia follow the law for a change….
August 7th, 2006 at 5:23 pm13 – yes. And injecting federal power over the states.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:23 pmEven Scalia can read the handwriting on the wall!
And you all thought it was just lib graffiti!
August 7th, 2006 at 5:26 pmDarned activist judges!
August 7th, 2006 at 5:28 pmI apologize Scalia…wow that was really quick
After the Hamdan case I guess Scalia is not going to be the fool..
August 7th, 2006 at 5:29 pmSometimes the law is just clear. Even though the GOP tried their best to ignore it, they are not the President. Only the President can break the law and get away with it in court.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:32 pmGreat, so now I’m gonna have to live with it when my fellow Texans re-elect him… Thanks loads…
Comment by Tom Smith —
Do you really think he’d be re-elected after all of this, Tom?
August 7th, 2006 at 5:40 pmNow Tom will have to actually spend some of that campaign money on a campaign.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:40 pm#20 — well, it is Texas…
August 7th, 2006 at 5:40 pmI guess this brings new meaning to the phrase “Justice DeLayed is Justice Denied”, but I’m not really sure what.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:43 pm1) DeLay doesn’t want to go back to Congress. This messes up his plans for lobbying or working in whatever bogus foundation he was planning for.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:44 pm2) He’s already resigned, so he’s not likely to get any committee leadership positions, even if seniority rules would still allow it.
3) Can he still use campaign funds from before that he has since transferred over to his legal defense funds? Who’s going to want to donate to him, knowing what happened to earlier donations? Some of those people probably have hit their limit on donations to him, and their money went to his legal fees instead. On top of that, he still has huge legal expenses to pay, and he’s got the distraction of having to work on his defense while running for an office he doesn’t want.
4) In the meantime, ongoing investigations still get into the news and mention his connections to people who have already been convicted.
5) This isn’t a good situation for Tom. He’ll plaster that big phony smile across his face and try to psych everyone into thinking he’s in the catbird seat, but he’s screwed.
6) Even if he wins, he may not get to serve much, if any, of his term. I don’t think they’ve set the trial date, yet, since they were waiting for the appeals to be finished.
trueblue,
August 7th, 2006 at 5:46 pmre #40
As a life-long, fourth generation Texan, I still fear the good ol’ boy network.
Unfortunately, now the good ol’ boys are also members of the “more money than brains” club.
And arent’ that rich.
So the Dems want to run unopposed? Is that the only way they can win? Oh I remember studying this type of “democracy†in school, it was/is used in countries that are communists. Yes they get to “vote†but there is only one name on the ballot. Good job of the Democrats shedding their facade of being in favor of democracy.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:47 pmI can’t believe he did something Consitutional for a change ,wow!
August 7th, 2006 at 5:50 pm#26 the issue is texas ellection laws, Delay and the GOP are trying to skirt the law ( typical for the GOP ).
Even Scalia has to rule according to the law ( the way it is written ) and texas election law is clear on this point.
Delay screwed up and created this mess himself, can’t blame the Democrats for this one hahahahahaha
August 7th, 2006 at 5:52 pmRRS,
Delay is running as a Republican. That means that the race is opposed.
http://www.dictionary.com
August 7th, 2006 at 5:53 pm26 RRS
August 7th, 2006 at 5:53 pmNice try but progressives just want the laws of the land to be followed and for our politicians to be honest. Delay does neither. He ran in the primary for reelection so he could still get campaign contributions so that they could be funneled into a legal defense fund. He does not care about the election itself. Republicans could have chosen someone else to represent them through the primary. They didn’t. It’s their problem. They have to live with it and not try to blame the Democrats.
UMM by keeping Delay on the ballot, it means the race is not being run unopposed. I am unsure where RRS got his facts, but I think the alzhiemers may be kicking in.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:55 pmThe Supreme Court will follow the orders of the GOP because they accepted the oil shares as payment. American now have no System of Justice as the members have been brought and paid for by the corrupt GOP. Abramoff and Cunningham will take their cases to the GOP Supreme Court and the court will set them free. Oh and look for the civil rights bill to be over turned as the US will need slaves again. Think about it fighting for a country that say thanks now your a slave again.
August 7th, 2006 at 5:58 pm#26
If the Dems run unopposed, you can thank your dumbass corrupt Republicans for giving them the opportunity to do so.
Oh, I forgot. People like DeLay never ever take responsibility for their own screw-ups. They look for someone else to blame them on. Ol’ Tom is real keen on playing cutthroat politics until it turns around and bites him. Then he’s suddenly a big crybaby who’s being persecuted by those awful Democrats. Didn’t he even compare himself to Jesus Christ at one point?
August 7th, 2006 at 6:02 pm#26 RRS
I find it a lot more honest to have one name on the ballot for an election than it is to have two or more names on the ballot and have the voting machines and vote counters fixed so that only the votes for one candidate are counted. At least the honest crooks are honest about being crooks. The repug motto “I am not a crook.” still applies and still riles people like you who are not blind but yet refuse to see.
August 7th, 2006 at 6:07 pm#20 – Yep. If DC can re-elect Marion Barry…
And, as #25 pointed out, if you ain’t from here, you really cain’t ‘preciate the GOB network.
August 7th, 2006 at 6:14 pm#20, I heard some interviews with quite a few diehard Delay supporting Sugarland residents, who seemed unmoved by/deaf to any allegations of wrondgdoing. They seemed completely blindsided by how much money he brought to the district, the power he wielded, and his hollow “righteous” talk. Unfortunately, I gather he’s probably about as popular as if he never tried to build up a campaign war chest by running in the primary (a/k/a building up his legal defense fund) and then splitting for Virginia.
August 7th, 2006 at 6:24 pmIsn’t this just a formality? Didn’t Scalia just do DeLay a favor by providing a judgement on the stay so quickly? Scalia didn’t say that the Supreme Court can’t hear the case, just that the stay wasn’t valid. By taking such a short amount of time to come back with a decision, the case can move forward to the court with less.. >groan
August 7th, 2006 at 6:39 pmTom,
Only lived in San Antonio for ~6 months. Not for me. (Austin was nice!)
Good point about Marion Barry. (shudder!)
Clyde,
August 7th, 2006 at 6:41 pmWant me to let you know what goes on in HK tonight? ;)
But what if he’s found guilty?
August 7th, 2006 at 6:42 pmWhat happens then?
#38 – Yeah, I live in a suburb of Austin. It’s nice to be insulated from “Texas” like Delay’s Sugarland, or Tulia, or Vidor, Jasper, or … I need to go lie down…
August 7th, 2006 at 6:52 pmCan’t they get the President to decidificate the decision or something?
August 7th, 2006 at 6:58 pmDecidification is one of my favoritest words of the American speechity.
August 7th, 2006 at 7:01 pmThat and “poop”
August 7th, 2006 at 7:07 pm#38 Trueblue
Thanks, but Grandma learned about our meeting last week and she may be suspicious. However, if Keith is kicked out let me know. If Virginia is kicked out it is obvious a Bushco plot and ploy so call Scalia. If Heather goes the rule for Virginia applies.
To stay honest I must comment on the thread and in a non-sarcastic manner (I know it is difficult, dammit!). The significance is not what happens during the election, the significance is what happened today and the speed in which it happened. The scrotum of the SCOTUS has just done a big CMA (Cover My Ass). He finally realized that his tenure on the SCOTUS was no longer than that of Queen George the Dumb in the White House. We have just witnessed the first tremor in the fall of the house of corruption.
August 7th, 2006 at 7:17 pmFirst the SCOTUS rebuffs Bush on Guantanamo, then Scalia takes DeLay to the woodshed. Gosh, Bush’s robot court seems to have grown a mind of its own! Eeeek! So much for all the scare-mongering about Bush filling the courts.
Kos is eating crow on this one, haha.
August 7th, 2006 at 7:32 pmNo “lord”ing again on seixon.com?
August 7th, 2006 at 7:34 pm#47 Seixon
I love your metaphor!
There are not too many of us around that remember the terror attached to a trip to the woodshed. It is a shame too, because fear of punishment many times overwhelmed the greed associated with instant gratification, as it should be. It is also a shame that the whole concept of authority requires responsibility has been lost on modern day politicians. The only law they will obey is the law of a shyster divorce lawyer arguing for the vengeful and greedy soon-to-be-ex-wife: “What is mine is mine and what is yours is mine too!” (Apologies to Marie, Trueblue, Unbelievable, and Zooey, et al) Remember, we are talking metaphor.
August 7th, 2006 at 8:02 pmSometimes you play the system one time too many,
The bugman was squashed by Scalia…too funny.
Even funnier, seeing Debugman and the GOP did the damage themselves…
Texas GOP: We Won’t Let Democrats “Steal This Seat”
http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001290.php
So if the people don’t vote for somebody who was indited, and RESIGNED, then tried to quit the race, The democrats are stealing?
August 7th, 2006 at 8:16 pmWayne A Schneider
August 7th, 2006 at 8:34 pmI was looking for you and Jane last week – glad you’re back.
#33 – jimb,
August 7th, 2006 at 8:50 pmHe did, but Jesus will get his revenge – Tom-boy will be reincarnated as a cockroach in his next eight lives.
Tom DeLay – no longer the prettiest girl at the party. :(
August 7th, 2006 at 9:07 pmI’m amazed that Scalia made the correct decision, but he did in this case. I wouldn’t necessarily take this as an indication that Scalia has suddenly decided to be ethical, but I’m glad that he followed the law this time.
August 8th, 2006 at 2:55 amSeixon
August 8th, 2006 at 8:23 amFor one of such renowned, self-proclaimed intellect you should have been able to recognize the sarcasm in my “lord”ing posts, my dear “Lord Seixon”. I visited seixon.com and it appeared to be nothing more than a love-fest for you with your posting about all the smears against you and your readers worshipping you. Leaving that site for TP must mean you weren’t getting enough praise (”lord”ing) there at the time. I don’t think you are really an atheist, because you seem IMO to think you, yourself, are god.
#26 – Good attempt at spin, there. The Democrats feel that the election laws should be upheld. I can only assume that you don’t agree with that. Of course, you are a Republican, so election laws aren’t all that important to your kind.
August 8th, 2006 at 9:00 am#26, Retired Republican Soldier
Looks like everybody else already told this guy he’s full of it. Where was his outrage when the courts illegally appointed W as president in 2000 (vote counts be damned)? Cheering, I bet…
August 8th, 2006 at 11:59 am