An appeals court in Texas refused today to reinstate a dropped conspiracy charge against former House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R), though the former congressman is still facing two charges of money laundering and conspiring to launder money. The court agreed with a previous judge who threw out the one conspiracy charge because the alleged crime occurred before the law took effect in 2003.
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