Paying the piper?
Tom DeLay’s lawyers are now arguing that for their client to get a fair trial there needs to be a change of venue, particularly somewhere other than “liberal” Travis County, home of the state capital and in the jurisdiction of DA Ronnie Earle.
Given all the other malarkey DeLay is floating about the criminal justice system being rigged against conservatives, I guess we shouldn’t be surprised.
But look at the specific issue they seem to be pushing.
This from the AP …
Defense attorneys argue that DeLay has been vilified in liberal Travis County, which was split into three different congressional districts as a result of a redistricting map DeLay engineered.
The structure of the sentence is a tad ambiguous. But I think they’re saying that DeLay can’t get a fair trial in that county because the residents of the county are so upset with him for disenfranchising them with his corrupt redistricting plan.
Imagine that.
