{"id":1887,"date":"2005-10-19T15:52:56","date_gmt":"2005-10-19T22:52:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2005-10-19T15:52:56","modified_gmt":"2005-10-19T22:52:56","slug":"an-arrest-warrant-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1887","title":{"rendered":"An arrest warrant for&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/10\/19\/delay.indictment.ap\/index.html\">Mr. Tom DeLay<\/a>.<\/strong> Today a Texas court issued an arrest warrant for DeLay, where he&#8217;ll go through the usual booking, mug-shot, fingerprinting, etc. Providing that he surrenders himself to the authorities. I wonder who in the blogosphere will get a hold of DeLay&#8217;s mug-shot photos first (it won&#8217;t be me, because my laptop is horrible when it comes to downloading photos).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>AUSTIN, Texas (AP) &#8212; A Texas court issued a warrant Wednesday for former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay to appear for booking, where he is likely to face the fingerprinting and photo mug shot he had hoped to avoid.<\/p>\n<p>Bail was initially set at $10,000 as a routine step before his first court appearance on conspiracy and money laundering charges. Travis County court officials said DeLay was ordered to appear at the Fort Bend County jail for booking.<\/p>\n<p>The warrant was &#8220;a matter of routine and bond will be posted,&#8221; DeLay attorney Dick DeGuerin said.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyer declined to say when DeLay would surrender to authorities but said the lawmaker would make his first court appearance Friday morning.[&#8230;]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>DeLay had also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/10\/17\/delay.indictment.ap\/index.html\"><strong>turned down a deal from the prosecution<\/strong><\/a> to plea guilty to a lesser charge in order to save his job.  Meanwhile his lawyers and campaign are continuing their assault against the prosecution by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/10\/14\/delay.ap\/index.html\"><strong>distributing information attacking the prosecutor<\/strong><\/a>, and going after him (the prosecutor) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/POLITICS\/10\/11\/delay.prosecutor.ap\/index.html\"><strong>for misconduct<\/strong><\/a>. And DeLay continues to deny any wrongdoing. Poor Hammer. It&#8217;s been such a tough past few weeks for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;.Mr. Tom DeLay. Today a Texas court issued an arrest warrant for DeLay, where he&#8217;ll go through the usual booking, mug-shot, fingerprinting, etc. Providing that he surrenders himself to the authorities. I wonder who in the blogosphere will get a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1887\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[102,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-zaniness-right-wingers-etc","category-elections-and-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}