A Texas Court of Appeals in Austin has overturned the conviction of former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, attorney Brian Wice told KVUE sister station KHOU 11 News.
DeLay, 66, was convicted in 2010 for his alleged role in a scheme to influence Texas elections.
He was found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering after he was accused of helping funnel corporate money to Texas candidates in 2002.
In documents released early Thursday, however, an appeals court said the evidence in the case was “legally insufficient to sustain DeLay’s convictions.”
“I’m very happy about it,” DeLay said in Washington Thursday. “I’m so glad they wrote the ruling about it because the ruling says I never should have been charged, much less indicted.”
The court said all judgments against DeLay were reversed, and the former congressman was formally acquitted.
If a Republican as prominent as DeLay could be subjected to politicized lawfare — and essentially ruined financially — before getting his name back, how easy does the left imagine it will be to destroy those “dissidents” among the economic units they plan to manage who get uppity and try to stand in the way of their Utopian dreams?
Not only was the original conviction absurd, immoral, politically-motivated, and despicable, but it was in fact quite telling: the lengths the left will go to do destroy their opponents and empower themselves, without an ounce of human compassion evident during their mob-led political wildings, are really quite chilling, and exhibit all the hallmarks of behavior from history’s other despotic, totalitarian, fascist / liberal fascist regimes.
That these people happen to speak our language and watch the same sit-coms or eat the same foods and listen to the same music doesn’t make them any less likely to behave in a way that, politically, it is in their nature to behave, as a kind of ideological imperative: the ends justify the means, standards and consistency are for those still entrapped by Enlightenment thinking (while they are “antifoundationalists”!), and might makes right.
It’s who they are. It’s what they do.
And don’t think for a second they’d spare you just because you’re one of the “good” ones who is a bit relaxed on their attempts to fundamentally transform the civil society through their coercively engineered reworkings of social policy.
You’re just their pets.
Everybody remembers Ronnie Earl bringing a lot of indictments. Nobody ever remembers how many are thrown out or which few that become convictions are found to be a lot of baloney. The man has somehow gotten away with this “throw everything at the wall and hope something sticks” prosecution style for a long time. It’s cheap to demolish a reputation.
That said, I think Tom would have been riding shotgun to Lindsey and Jim these days.
I just hope the vicious partisan political criminalization undertaken by the Leftists these last couple of decades doesn’t become a permanent feature of our political landscape — in the sense of the *turnabout is fair play* aphorism. Tyranny would love nothing better. Yet it’s very difficult to see any other ‘progression’ of events, given a difficulty imagining people would abandon or restrain ordinary practice, or human nature, if it is permitted to suggest such a thing exists.
But we should rightly wonder, “how not?”, when no penalties are assessed against those who use such bastardly tactics, no measure of censure, not even the mere admission of guilt of the conduct on the part of the actors involved. We can hardly expect just future behavior in an environment where there simply is none to be seen in the present.
It was the Republican’s trying to reach out to the Democrats as their “friends” in government who instituted a rule for their conference alone that any [R] who was indited would have to resign from Congress that led to this Ronny Earle farce.
All he had to do was just get an indictment, any indictment, and he could remove the 3rd most powerful [R] congressman from office all by himself. Having an actual case, WTF for?
Of course the Democrats would never have such a rule. They don’t mind if one of theirs is in prison or brain dead. Breathing is all that matters, for [D] congresspersons, [D] voters don’t even need to breathe to vote.
mr. delay displayed no bitterness while talking to mr. levin tonight.
Once Obamacare becomes law, they won’t need to destroy you financially.
Ronnie Earl tried the same damned thing with Kay Bailey Hutchison too. A million counts of whatever, let the grand jury sort it all out. More caltrops and much than charges.
much-> muck