DeLay Hearings Put Off Until After the Holiday ("But what about MY needs?"

[No Exit]

Sorry, Bugboy. No force is great enough to stop a court from pausing in its labors towards your recovery of your money machine date with justice, during the (ahem) holiday season. Surely a big savvy guy like you knew how court scheduling works?

Better call Balto the sled dog, Bugboy. Maybe he can make a last-ditch run to hurry that emergency justice to you before it's too late to save your valuable money empire House leadership position.

AUSTIN, Texas Dec 8, 2005 — A state district judge told Rep. Tom DeLay's lawyers that he won't schedule hearings in DeLay's money laundering and conspiracy case until after Christmas, a blow to the lawmaker's hopes to speedily clear his name and reclaim his position as House majority leader.

In a letter to DeLay's attorneys Wednesday, Senior Judge Pat Priest said he'll be working on other cases and won't be available until Dec. 27 to take up pending motions in DeLay's case stemming from a 2002 campaign finance scheme.

DeLay attorney Dick DeGuerin had also asked Priest to tentatively schedule a trial for the first or second week of January. Priest wrote that a trial date depends on whether the state appeals his decision earlier this week to dismiss another conspiracy charge and would not commit to a January trial. An appeal would delay the case.


"I am fine with setting up the pending pretrial motions for the week between Christmas and New Year's, and with planning a trial setting early next year, but I cannot require the state not to appeal my ruling," Priest wrote.

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http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=1387616

The beauty of all this is, the last nail in the coffin of Bugboy's hopes for a December trial is that the state has the right to appeal the dismissal of the conspiracy charge. And the state has a right to take a certain amount of time about appealing it. Hoist on your own petard, Big Boy.

"This would never have happened if not for that damned Christmas!"--Bugboy.

[Lindsay]

1. I'm sure it's a terrible shock for the Bugman

to discover there are aspects of the universe that do not conform to his schedule.

Welcome to other folks' reality, Bugdude.

[mediaman007]

2. Maybe Delay shouldn't have dumped the first judge...

His calendar was probably open. That was most likely why he was assigned the case.

Blame yourself Tommy Boy.

[NYC Liberal]

3. WHAT? You mean DeLay DOESN'T come first everywhere?

[No Exit]

4. DeLay is against the delay! LOL! The world must stop spinning for HIM!

[No Exit]

5. Hey this is fun: "Delay is bad news for DeLay"

[FreedomAngel82]

6. What a whiney baby

He needs to take a page from Cunningham. At least he finally told the truth (when caught) and isn't fighting it like DeLay.