{"id":5735,"date":"2005-11-03T14:23:01","date_gmt":"2005-11-03T19:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/5735.html"},"modified":"2005-11-03T14:23:01","modified_gmt":"2005-11-03T19:23:01","slug":"someone-will-have-to-hear-this-case-eventually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/someone-will-have-to-hear-this-case-eventually\/","title":{"rendered":"Someone will have to hear this case eventually"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tom DeLay&#8217;s legal team asked State district Judge Bob Perkins not to consider DeLay&#8217;s money-laundering case because Perkins gave money to Dems and progressive causes. So a new judge took on the case &#8212; until <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory?id=1278092\">he was booted too<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Two days after U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay won a fight to get a new judge in his case, prosecutors on Thursday succeeded in ousting the Republican jurist responsible for selecting the new judge. <\/p>\n<p>Administrative Judge B.B. Schraub recused himself after District Attorney Ronnie Earle filed a motion asking for his removal from the case.<\/p>\n<p>Schraub said he will ask the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court name a judge to preside over DeLay&#8217;s conspiracy and money laundering trial.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Perkins contributed more than $5,000 to Dems, Schraub contributed more than $5,000 to Republicans, including Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a key DeLay ally and major figure in the re-redistricting effort that is part of this case.<\/p>\n<p>Now all they have to do is find a judge in Texas who can be considered neutral and impartial by both sides.<\/p>\n<p>This could take a while.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom DeLay&#8217;s legal team asked State district Judge Bob Perkins not to consider DeLay&#8217;s money-laundering case because Perkins gave money to Dems and progressive causes. So a new judge took on the case &#8212; until he was booted too. Two days after U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay won a fight to get a new judge in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}