Mr. Alec: DeLay's best defense

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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

DeLay's best defense

I stumbled upon the New Republic's blog, "The Plank" a couple of weeks ago and have found it delightful (although it is clearly left-leaning as opposed to TNR's typical neo-liberal hawkish approach). Regardless, expect a link of it to appear in a couple days on this site (when I am done with finals!!!).

Anyways the purpose of this post is that the Plank highlighted a hilarious section in an Associated Press report on DeLay's trial:

In trying to have those charges thrown out, the defense argued that the Texas money laundering law does not apply to funds in the form of a check, just coins or paper money. But the judge said that checks "are clearly funds and can be the subject of money laundering."

-Mr. Alec

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