Posted on 08/16/2014 6:35:47 PM PDT by WilliamIII
They say a prosecutor could get a grand jury to indict a ham sandwich, and this always seemed like hyperbole, until Friday night a Texas grand jury announced an indictment of governor Rick Perry. The “crime” for which Perry faces a sentence of 5 to 99 years in prison is vetoing funding for a state agency. The conventions of reporting — which treat the fact of an indictment as the primary news, and its merit as a secondary analytic question — make it difficult for people reading the news to grasp just how farfetched this indictment is.
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Wow! You are OK with the justice system being perverted as long as it suits your political ends. Do you think you might just be a Democrat at heart?
This Star Chamber in Travis County needs to arrested and have their assets seized for exactly the charges they are being inquisitors on.
I wonder if the Democrats are thankful too?
Travis county has indicted a number on our team....and tried to indict more
It’s the Saul Alinsky way!!!!! EVIL!!!
You are a sick puppy if you are glad this happened to him or anyone else.
This was likely ordered by Obama for his calling out the troops on the border or Hilary to eliminate a challenger.
I’m surprised a judge would want that one in his court...makes him sort if a laughing stock to allow it.
Do you know where the video is?
Do you know where the video is?
Do you know where the video is?
Yes I agree with most of that.
Thanks. She showed herself to be a bully.
“For the benefit of non-Texans, they need to know that the state’s constitution grants the Travis County District Attorney legal jurisdiction over every elected official in the state — including those elected to federal office.”
What Texas law specifically gives the DA the authority to prosecute governors for executing a veto, for the purpose of denying funds to a district with a corrupt prosecutor?
None. But when has that stopped a partisan Dem DA given authority over elected Republican officials?
See Fitzgerald, Patrick and Earle, Ronnie (Lehmbeck's predecessor) for further information.
“Mostly the drawl is found beyond the city limits, where all the native Texans moved to when the transplants from California took over Austin.”
You’re absolutely right, Austin, is the most un-Texas like city in the state. When the Silicon Valley companies ( like Applied Materials) moved there, so did their supply chain vendors, bringing with them a bunch of non-Texans. That said though, the people like this woman and Ronnie Earle are old-line Texas RATs.
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