AUSTIN, Texas - Two days after U.S. Rep.
Tom DeLay won a fight to get a new judge in his case, prosecutors on Thursday succeeded in ousting the Republican jurist responsible for selecting the new judge.
Administrative Judge B.B. Schraub recused himself after District Attorney Ronnie Earle filed a motion asking for his removal from the case.
Schraub said he will ask the chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court name a judge to preside over DeLay's conspiracy and money laundering trial.
State district Judge Bob Perkins, a Democrat, was removed from DeLay's case Tuesday after DeLay's legal team cast doubt on Perkins' ability to judge the case fairly because of more than $5,000 in contributions he's made to Democrats.
Earle said in his motion filed Thursday that Schraub has made more than $5,000 in contributions to Republican candidates, including to Gov. Rick Perry, a DeLay ally, which calls into question Schraub's impartiality in the case.
Prosecutors had asked for Schraub to recuse himself or appoint another judge to take his place. The motion said that Schraub could ask Perry to appoint the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to assign a judge to conduct a hearing on the motion.
This is getting fricking ridiculous!
First DeLay outs Judge Perkins because Perkins donated to MoveOn.org. And now Earle outs Judge Schraub because Schraub donated $5,000 to a Gov. Perry, who is a DeLay ally. We've got both sides of the case crawling through just about every Texas judges' closet, looking for any skeleton. Has the Texas judicial system gotten this partisan?
The game of musical judges begins. Let's see how many judges we can find, who are partisan hacks on both sides, in the great state of Texas!
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