This goes to show you how much the Republican’s hate our justice system.
Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said he never thought the courts would prevent the Republican Party from replacing him on the November ballot, a Houston television station reported Thursday.
“I’m very disappointed in our justice system. There doesn’t seem to be justice,” DeLay told KTRK-TV.
DeLay, R-Sugar Land, won the GOP primary in March but resigned from Congress in June and moved to Virginia as he faced increasing scrutiny over ethical troubles, including state money laundering charges and fallout from his association with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff.
The state Republican Party declared DeLay ineligible, setting up a plan for party insiders to choose a replacement candidate to face Democrat Nick Lampson, a former congressman, in the fall.
But Democrats sued to stop the effort and won, with federal appellate courts ruling that DeLay could only withdraw from the race. Any Republicans wishing to replace him would have to mount write-in campaigns.
Now remember what finally ended the GOP’s court fight in this? It was when Scalia refused the GOP request to do a hearing on the lower court rulings. That means Scalia, one of the most conservative judges on the Supreme Court, felt that the Republican’s attempt to alter a ballot already decided upon by voter’s was wrong. If Delay and the rest of the GOP do not like how our system of justice works, then they can get the hell out of the country now. I suggest they find a nation more suited to their political/justice beliefs. Perhaps China or Cuba would better suit them.