Delay's fraud may cost the Repubs his seat in Congress

Sourced via Josh Marshall at TPM:

This is certainly something that should be followed. A TRO (temporary restraining order) is rare and only issued when a judge thinks the Plaintiff has a high likelihood that he will win the case on the merits.


June 8 - The TRO was granted, and the Chairman of the Texas Republican Party is enjoined from calling a meeting of the District Executive Committee. A full hearing will be held on June 22nd. In granting the order, Judge Darlene Byrne wrote,

"Plaintiffs are entitled to a Temporary Restraining Order because it is probable they will prevail against Defendant and obtain a permanent injunction . If the Temporary Restraining Order is not granted, irreparable harm is imminent, as the meeting (the local District Executive Committee) is expected to be called at any moment.

Here's the court documents filed by the Texas Democratic party.
By the way, by granting this, the judge is probably keeping DeLay from going to hell for taking people's money under false pretenses. I think he owes her a big thanks!

-snip-

The Texas Election Code permits a candidate to withdraw. However, the Legislature attached a cost to withdraw after a primary. If a candidate withdraws after his party’s primary, the party cannot substitute another candidate for the withdrawing candidate. The reason for this rule is simple – the Legislature did not want the candidates duping voters into contributing money and energy to the candidate in the primary, only to watch the candidate take the money and run, not in the general election, but to the bank. So the law places the burden on the party in whose primary the candidate ran – in this instance the Republican party – to make sure that candidates in the party’s primary intend to and will run in the general election. If the Party fails to impose this discipline, the penalty is that the Party cannot insert another candidate into the race for District 22.

http://www.brazosriver.com/#june8b

I would not hold out any hope for any Democrat in that precinct. Those people there are truly warped. They would re-elect Delay in a heartbeat even knowing for a fact he was crooked.