So Tom DeLay dies and goes to wherever. Can he ask for a different judge?

[Cyrano]

Tom DeLay is a self-proclaimed fundie who believes he's above the law. He wants a different judge. How many defendants get to pick and chose in this manner?

According to the scriptures that he claims to love so much, everyone is going to be judged by DeLay's Almighty deity. Ummm, Tom, what if you don't like THAT judge? Are you going to ask for a different one? And if so, exactly who would you like Him/Her/It to be? Maybe there's a Republican God and a Democrat God.

[Canuckistanian]

1. He just has to bribe St. Peter

Or tell him that God is his "personal friend" and he better let Tom in. Or else.

[sui generis]

2. fuck him. MIchael Jackson didn't get a change of venue or judge

There is a point beyond which the justification for change of venue no longer applies, almost always when you're talking about a public figure or highly publicized case.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

7. It's always the court's call

If there were "a point" beyond which a defendant was not able to exercise his rights, I'd say that America had fallen on bleak times, indeed.

That's DeLay talk, you know - "fuck him," and so forth. Remember when he decided that he knew better than the Florida courts?

Let's not let ourselves descend to their abysmal level. We're better than that. We respect our laws.

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[sui generis]

15. Yes we are better than that

You lose.

[Gman]

3. Yes since Jesus is clearly a Democrat

He would want someone like Abraham or Moses.

[OldLeftieLawyer]

4. All defendants have that right

This is America.

The defendant can request a change of venue, if he can establish that the current venue is prejudicial to his case.

The defendant can ask the judge to recuse himself - but, as I was taught in law school, you had better be very, very sure of yourself before you do that. If you can't kill the king with one stroke, you're going to be in seriouz trouble when your first stroke misses.

Our courts are not houses of worship, except for those of us who regard the law as sacred.

[durablend]

5. Not where he's going!

If the pitchfork doesn't do him in, the searing heat just might :evilgrin:

[eallen]

6. Sure. Then he's sent to hell, where all the GOP judges reside.

[bottomofthehill]

8. Ummm. Al Gore

Did not get a change in venue nor did those Justices who were appointed during Dim Sons fathers administration recuse themselves. Why does this ass hat think he should get one.

[BR_Parkway]

9. I LMAO when I saw the supportive wife wearing an Orange dress

what was she thinking this am? Tommie's new jumpsuit, maybe I can make orange fashionable?

[mattclearing]

11. DemocratIC God. Democrat is not an adjective. Thank you. n/t

[Cyrano]

12. My grammatical faux pas is so embarrassing I shall seek absolution by

attending a Republican rally. Oh, the horror. The horror.

On the other hand, thanks for the info.

[mattclearing]

13. I can't help it. I hope you understand. :) n/t

[AlCzervik]

14. He's making it a politcal and partisan, he's shopping for a GOP judge

in a GOP county, he's "Politicizing it"

[bklyncowgirl]

16. Nope, he's gotta meet Jesus.

You know the unjustly imprisoned, tortured and executed founder of Christianity. The guy who said "It easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom Of Heaven."

Delay is heading to the Lake of Fire.