Breaking News: Minnesota Judge rejects Larry Craig's request to withdraw

[MiniMe]

guilty plea.

Banner Headline on CNN, no link yet.

[shaniqua6392]

1. Yipppppeeeeee!

I can't believe it.

[Breeze54]

2. Good!

Wide Stance, Toe Tapping Larry!


You can't dance your way out of this one "Senator"!

[backscatter712]

3. Whoopee, Craig gets his punishment...

About $500 in fines and fees for disorderly conduct.

Oh, and endless, breathtaking, sweet, sweet humiliation!!!

Excuse me while I have a schadenfreudegasm...

[MonkeyFunk]

4. He's going down!

oh wait...

[Lex]

5. Yep, top banner at msnbc.com

too but no real link yet.

[Botany]

6. He had 2 months to get the plea in and plenty of time to talk to a lawyer.

Way to go Judge.

CNN Headline

A Minnesota judge has rejected Sen. Larry Craig's bid to withdraw his guilty plea stemming from a men's room sex sting arrest.

:rofl:

[shain from kane]

11. Craig demonstrates his technique with microphone as a prop. n/t

[KansDem]

21. Really? I thought he was giving us some real "toe tapping" music!

Sorry, just had to say it...:rofl:

[radfringe]

7. did anyone knock on the restroom door before telling him the news?

wonder how wide his stance was when he crapped his pants at the news?

[MrCoffee]

8. and a collective "well, duh!" was heard throughout the land

[napi21]

9. Thank God for a judge who seems to have common sense!

This AH was a US Senator for YEARS! He is SUPPOSED to have logic and common sense when performing his duties as a Senator. If he's too damn stupid to realize he should have contacted a lawyer, that's HIS problem! If he signed the guilty plea WITHOUT reading it, that's even WORSE! I suspect none of those things are true. I think he believed he had so much clout via being a Senator for so long, he could run rough shod over all those peons using all his power, and this whole thing would go away.

Surprise, surprise, Larry! Hang your head in shame for such a flagrant attempt of abuse of power as you crawl back to your Idaho cave.

[TwilightGardener]

10. Crap--hate to see you go, Larry. You were a hell of a black eye on the GOP. We'll miss ya.

[H2O Man]

12. Darn it all.

Though it is the correct ruling, it would have been good for the republican party to have this be on-going.

[Totally Committed]

13. Okay, NOW the feeding frenzy by the GOP to get him out of the Senate will begin in earnest.

They will take him down like a pack of hyenas take down a wounded wildebeest. It's gonna be ugly, if he doesn't go quietly.

TC

[npincus]

14. Judge's rendering here (LINK):

http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/2007/images/10/04/minnesota.v.larry.craig.pdf

[L. Coyote]

15. Flush Larry Flush. If only you had flushed, and NOTpicked up other people's TP!

Good-bye to bad excuses.

[book_worm]

16. Good because he had more than enough time to withdraw before pleading guilty and

paying his fine. More than two months to think it over.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

17. I would have been shocked if the judge ruled otherwise. nt

[lonestarnot]

18. Adios widestance.

[KansDem]

22. Mucho pronto! No more "stall" from this guy! (nt)

[leftysopaw]

19. sounds like a victory

for police who entrap homosexuals

[MrCoffee]

20. ha ha ha...welcome to DU

enjoy your stay

[Laughing Mirror]

23. Sounds that way to me too

But what else can you expect from a police state.

And it is a police state now, especially in airports. No question about it.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

24. Larry Craig says he's not homosexual.

So there goes that argument.

[leftysopaw]

26. this is true

but what about the others?

[caledesi]

25. 'entrap?' Read what entrapment REALLY is please.....NT

[leftysopaw]

27. i have

[Bucky]

28. According to our system of justice you get one trial for one crime.

Unless you're a connected Republican bigwig--then you get as many whacks at the ball as you need. Who forgot to tell this judge that Republicans live by a different standard of law.

[L. Coyote]

29. THE HILL: Despite ruling, Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) says he will finish out his term

Despite ruling, Craig says he will finish out his term
By Elana Schor - October 05, 2007 - 30 minutes ago
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/despite-ruling-craig-says-he-will-finish-out-his-term-2007-10-05.html

Sen. Larry Craig (R) said Thursday he would finish his full term before retiring, his choice revealed hours after a Minnesota judge denied the Idahoan’s bid to withdraw his guilty plea in the bathroom sex sting that upended his career.

Craig’s determination to stay in the Senate for another year leaves GOP leaders mulling their next move. The ethics committee has asserted jurisdiction over Craig’s alleged homosexual solicitation, leaving the door open for public hearings on his conduct or any stronger measures — such as censure or expulsion — that Republicans may seek to pursue.

“As I continued to work for Idaho over the past three weeks here in the Senate, I have seen that it is possible for me to work here effectively,” Craig said in a statement, adding that he would push to “clear my name in the Senate Ethics Committee — something that is not possible if I am not serving in the Senate.”

In a 27-page order, Judge Charles Porter of Minnesota’s Hennepin County court rejected the argument from Craig’s legal team that not allowing him to withdraw his guilty plea would be a “manifest injustice.”

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