LIVE! Perry Booking!

[blogslut]

http://www.texastribune.org/livestream/

gotta love the Texas Tribune.

[merrily]

1. Why Axelrod felt compelled to tweet that Perry's indictment seems

sketchy is beyond me.

[blogslut]

2. Don't care.

I'm taking this moment and enjoying the hell out of it.

[former9thward]

5. Because it is.

Nobody in the legal community is standing up for it.

[merrily]

7. Even if it is, no one has to tweet that it is.

That was gratuitous.

[gratuitous]

11. No, it was Axelrod; I don't have a Twitter account

Although I'm unaware that there's nobody in the legal community standing up for the Perry indictment. In fact, I've seen several knowledgeable posts around the internet that as seemingly loose as the standards are for a Texas governor to be held to account for abuse of power, Perry may have accomplished it in trying to subvert an ongoing investigation into executive branch corruption, trying to force an elected official from office, and then vetoing funding of her agency when she declined.

If Perry was all that concerned about who was running the Travis County District Attorney's office, there were other remedies at his disposal besides threats and withholding the office's funding. Perry doesn't impress me as the subtle, nuanced type.

[merrily]

9. P.S. Axelrod is not a member of the legal community.

[former9thward]

12. And ...?

Has that stopped anybody on the internet from commenting?

Others echoed that sentiment, including Jonathan Turley, a constitutional law scholar at The George Washington University: "One of the laws being used is hopelessly vague, the other really doesn't appear to fit."

http://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/politics/texas/article/Prosecutors-may-have-a-tough-time-making-Perry-5693373.php

[merrily]

13. It's not his area of expertise which means there is even less reason for him to comment.

Not that every lawyer or judge in the country is commenting anyway.

Again, it's not whether the indictment is "sketchy" or not. It's whether Axelrod's weighing in publicly was gratuitous or not. I think he could have kept it to himself.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/17/rick-perry-indictment_n_5685735.html

[former9thward]

15. I think you are fighting social media.

We all want to comment no matter if we have any competence or not. That is the business model that drives Twitter, FB, DU and a thousand others. Might as well fight the tides.

[blogslut]

3. Of course he picks the 5:00PM hour to go in.

That's when everybody is on the road, driving home from work.

[malaise]

4. On CNN as well n/t

[alsame]

6. MSNBC has it on too NT

[pinto]

8. LOL. He touts "the rule of law". Govrenor Perry was indicted by a Grand Jury, under the rule of law.

[blogslut]

10. ...

:large

[procon]

14. Any bets

that he'll pose with an idiotic grin for his booking photo?

[blogslut]

16. Booky Booky, Perry got the Hooky

[UTUSN]

18. Is that the real mugshot?!1 Sort of a little BIEBER smirk going on!1

[blogslut]

19. It's real.

Here's a Dallas Morning News article with a larger version:

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2014/08/rick-perry-to-be-booked-at-travis-county-courthouse-supporters-plan-rally.html/

[Blue Owl]

17. Oh Perry, you're outta love...

n/t