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An ally of liberal financier George Soros and Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta had multiple conversations concerning a replacement for late Justice Antonin Scalia on the U.S. Supreme Court, new emails released by WikiLeaks show. Chris Stone, president of the Open Society Foundations (OSF) — a network of foundations and projects founded and chaired by Soros — emailed Podesta mere hours after Scalia died Feb. 13 to discuss a potential successor. Mere hours.​ We have the employee of a billionaire who made it his mission to determine the outcome of the political process over a decade ago trying to...

Scalia replacement From:chris.stone@opensocietyfoundations.org To: john.podesta@gmail.com Date: 2016-02-13 22:16 Subject: Scalia replacement Remember our discussion of Wallace Jefferson, Chief Justice in Texas? _________________________________ Christopher Stone President, Open Society Foundations

The judicial carousel in U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay's conspiracy case almost spun out of control Thursday as the search for a judge beyond the hint of any political taint reached the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court. Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson, a Republican, named Pat Priest, a retired Democratic judge from his hometown of San Antonio, to hear the case — but not before Jefferson's own multiple ties to DeLay's political operation were questioned. Jefferson waved off questions about those ties Thursday afternoon as he searched for a judge to hear the biggest political trial in Texas for this...

AUSTIN — A new judge was selected to preside over Rep. Tom DeLay's conspiracy and money laundering trial today, after another judge became the second to step away from involvement in the case because of political contributions he has made. Administrative Judge B.B. Schraub, a Republican who was to have selected the judge for the case, withdrew after Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle filed a request to have him removed. Two days earlier, District Judge Bob Perkins was removed from the case at DeLay's request because of his contributions to Democrats. >>>Schraub asked Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace...

Did You Know? Countdown to Victory: Currently, Texas is the only state to have 3 African Americans serving in statewide office—all are Republicans: Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice Wallace Jefferson, Supreme Court Justice Dale Wainwright, and Railroad Commissioner Michael Williams. In the 10 years that Republicans have been the statewide majority (1994–2004), 7 minority Texans have held statewide office; yet in the 122 years that Democrats controlled the State (1872–1994), only 4 minority Texans held statewide office. The Texas Republican Party was formed on July 4, 1867, in Houston by 150 African Americans and 20 Anglos. 2 of the first...