Rick Perry has been indicted.
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Rick Perry has been indicted.
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Rick Perry has been indicted.
For the White Witch!
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He's actually one of the less-scary potential GOP candidates in my eyes.
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Back on topic, ho lee shit.
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I'm loving that Rick Perry is calling his indictment for abuse of power an abuse of power. I am eating this shit up.
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Jonathan Chait: This Indictment Of Rick Perry Is Unbelievably Ridiculous.
On the one hand, threatening to veto an agency's funding unless its overseer resigns seems pretty self-evidently shady. On the other, if the prosecution's case is really that a veto threat is not an official action, then yeah that sounds like a ludicrous claim.
It sounds like Perry might have done something petty and abusive. But I'm not convinced it was actually illegal.
Perry stands accused of violating two laws. One is a statute defining as an offense “misus[ing] government property, services, personnel, or any other thing of value belonging to the government that has come into the public servant's custody or possession by virtue of the public servant's office or employment.” The veto threat, according to the prosecutor, amounted to a “misuse.” Why? That is hard to say.
The other statute prohibits anybody in government from “influenc[ing] or attempt[ing] to influence a public servant in a specific exercise of his official power or a specific performance of his official duty or influenc[ing] or attempt[ing] to influence a public servant to violate the public servant's known legal duty.”
But that statute also specifically exempts “an official action taken by the member of the governing body.” The prosecutors claim that, while vetoing the bill may be an official action, threatening a veto is not. Of course the threat of the veto is an integral part of its function. The legislature can hardly negotiate with the governor if he won’t tell them in advance what he plans to veto. This is why, when you say the word “veto,” the next word that springs to mind is “threat.” That’s how vetoes work.
On the one hand, threatening to veto an agency's funding unless its overseer resigns seems pretty self-evidently shady. On the other, if the prosecution's case is really that a veto threat is not an official action, then yeah that sounds like a ludicrous claim.
It sounds like Perry might have done something petty and abusive. But I'm not convinced it was actually illegal.
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I'd look at extortion precedent. You might have a legitimate basis to sue someone, but threatening to proceed with that lawsuit unless they do something for you can still be extortionary. The threatened exercise of executive power is pretty comparable.
Rick Perry has been indicted
And Mr. Perry will claim that he can restore prosperity to America by applying the same policies at a national level.
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HEY! HEY.
We have ONE RULE here, mister.
We have ONE RULE here, mister.
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And Mr. Perry will claim that he can restore motorcycles to America by applying the same policies at a national level.
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At least we know he didn't kill an unarmed black man?
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I mean judging by the state of Texas' capital punishment system he probably has by extension of his governing.
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