Texas Republicans take DeLay case to Supreme Court

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday August 3, 2006

Texas Republicans plan to appeal a federal court's decision that Tom DeLay is eligible in Texas Congressional District 22, RAW STORY has learned.

The fight will now take the case all the way to the United States Supreme Court.

"The Republican Party of Texas intends to expeditiously appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court," said party Chair Tina Baker in a release, "the 5th Circuit's decision to force Tom DeLay, an ineligible candidate for Congress, to stay on the ballot in Texas Congressional District 22 as the Republican nominee."

DeLay moved to Virginia in April of this year. The U.S. Constitution requires that anyone who serves as a U.S. Representative be an inhabitant of the State he serves when elected.

The state party has characterized earlier court decisions forcing DeLay to stay on the ballot as "chaotic."