AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Attorneys for Texas Gov. Rick Perry are asking a judge to dismiss criminal charges alleging that the possible 2016 presidential candidate abused his power with a veto last summer.
Perry’s attorneys filed the motion Monday in district court in Austin. They say the law being used to prosecute Perry is unconstitutionally vague.
Perry is accused of leveraging his veto power to try to oust a Democratic district attorney whose office oversees the state’s Public Integrity Unit. Perry cut off $7.5 million in state funds to the unit — which prosecutes public corruption in Texas — when Rosemary Lehmberg refused to resign following a drunken driving arrest.
He’s charged with abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant. If convicted, Perry could face a maximum 109 years in prison.
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They say the law being used to prosecute Perry is unconstitutionally vague.
Nice try.
From what I heard, he offered the DA with the DUI another post in the same office and same salary if she would just resign from her post as overseeing the state’s Public Integrity unit. Which means that he did NOT believe she was unworthy, but rather that he was trying to manipulate things so he could appoint someone friendlier to him and his donor pals who were being investigated for the Cancer institute at the time.
That is corruption.
Ask?
Really?
They meant 'find out how much they’d have to pay ’ to dismiss.