of course, he's a lawyer first.
Exactly, and a good one! Delay doesn't care if the guys a liberal or not, if he can kick butt in the court room that is all that matters.
Here some info about the Judge in the case and also DeLay's attorney Dick DeGuerin.
Texas is VERY different when it comes to politics. You can't get hung up in your shorts over the Dem vs Repub issue because a lot of it doesn't apply in Texas. Wasn't that long ago in Texas that there wasn't such thing as a Republican, only liberal Democrats and conservative Democrats.
ALSO, don't think for a minute that Judge Perkins is going to tolerate Ronnie Earle's misconduct in this matter. There is a LOT of Democrats in Texas that hate Ronnie Earle for Earle pissing all over the leg of the late great politician Bob Bullock.
Further, most of the media "legal experts" don't know squat about Texas politics and it legal system. Total horse dung what they are saying right now on this latest legal salvo by DeLay's attorney.
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About the Judge on the Tom DeLay Indictment Case
Judge Robert ("Bob") A. Perkins (JD-'73)
331st Judicial Criminal District Court
http://www.co.travis.tx.us/district_courts/criminal_courts/331.asp
Judge Perkins is a Democrat, but so is Dick DeGuerin. Judge Perkins donated $725 to the John Kerry Presidential Campaign in 2004. (Big spender, haa)
I posted this on another thread re DeGuerin:
FYI, DeLay's attorney, Dick DeGuerin, (one of the top criminal defense lawyers in the country) is a self-described yellow-dog Democrat who regularly votes in Democratic primaries. (Yellow-dog means these Dems would vote for a yellow-dog running on a Dem ticket before they would vote for a Repub, lol.)
Since the beginning of the 1988 election cycle, DeGuerin has contributed $15,800 to Democratic candidates, including $1,000 in 1996 to former Rep. Nick Lampson (D-Texas), who plans to challenge DeLay for his seat next fall.
DeGuerin also contributed $1,000 in 2002 to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, which is pinning its hopes for the 2006 election on DeLay’s legal problems and their potential to taint all GOP House candidates.
In an interview, DeGuerin described himself as being “kind of raised in Austin and Democratic politics.” His father served as Lyndon Baines Johnson’s administrative assistant when the former president was a member of Congress. DeGuerin’s father later worked for the Johnson administration in the Commerce Department.
(Remember my previous post. It wasn't that long ago that there wasn't just a thing in Texas as a Republican. You were either a Liberal Dem or a Conservative Dem. Texas laws and political history are very different than the other 49 States)
Per DeGuerin: “I don’t know that I agree with [DeLay’s] politics, and I don’t have to,” DeGuerin said. “What’s happened to him is political, and I don’t agree with trying to affect the ballot box with the jury box, and that’s what Ronnie Earle is trying to do.” DeGuerin said he made his political persuasion “very clear” to DeLay and his supporters, and he said DeLay is comfortable with it.
of course, he's a lawyer first.
And one of the best in Texas.
Most Texas Democrats don't like what Earle is doing, either. Texas Dems seem to be markedy different than those outside the state. Not sure why.