Because Only a Republican Judge Can Judge a Corrupt Republican
Unbelievably, Tom Delay successfully forced the judge in his money-laundering case to step down yesterday, on the basis that the judge had contributed to some Democratic causes in the past.
Their next move, apparently, is to petition the court to move the trial out of Austin (a liberal college town), because only in a Republican county can a Republican judge fairly judge a Republican criminal.
Judges in Texas run for office, and evidence presented in court showed that they routinely contribute to Republican and Democratic political campaigns. But Dick DeGuerin, Mr. DeLay’s lead lawyer, said Judge Perkins’s gifts to Democratic groups that vilify Mr. DeLay as a way of soliciting contributions, as well as his donation to the liberal group MoveOn.org, created the appearance of bias, compelling a recusal under Texas law…
Ronnie Earle, the district attorney prosecuting Mr. DeLay, defended Judge Perkins and castigated Mr. DeLay, who has often accused Mr. Earle, a Democrat, of pursuing a political vendetta.
“The law expresses no need for judges to check their citizenship at the door,” Mr. Earle argued. He called Judge Perkins’s contributions “paltry, not a fraction what this defendant is capable of raising for his causes, including intimidating judges with whom he disagrees.”
Read the Full Story at The New York Times
“Judge in DeLay Case Is Ordered to Recuse Himself”
November 2, 2005
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