A good district attorney can indict a ham sandwich if he wants to, and Mr. Earle understands that, ... The accusations harm as much as the convictions. Because all you have right now is accusations, and we're having an interview on a national television show about accusations. So they're obviously harmful or it wouldn't be news.
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This morning, in an act of blatant political partisanship, a rogue district attorney in Travis County, Texas, named Ronnie Earle charged me with one count of criminal conspiracy a reckless charge wholly unsupported by the facts, ... This is one of the weakest, most baseless indictments in American history. It's a sham and Mr. Earle knows it.
Ronnie Earle, a local county prosecutor, is affecting the business of the United States by his foot dragging and his frivolous appeals, and we're not going to stop.
I'll dig deep and remember how Earle Everett would have done it. Earl probably would have had the bout sheets put together by now. I'm going to try hard and make this tournament the way it used to be. I think eventually I can make it a huge success.
In this country, we're innocent until proven guilty. Mr. DeLay deserves that presumption. I'm not going to attack Ronnie Earle, and I'm certainly not going to abandon Tom DeLay. ... Let this work its course,
With the Republicans controlling both houses of Congress, this is the Eisenhower-era revisited. It's ostrich time, where people are looking for comfort rather than challenge in their art. It's a lot easier to listen to Barry Manilow murder what are actually good songs from the '50s than to consider what left-leaning songwriter Steve Earle has to say.
Earle and his staff engaged in an extraordinarily irregular and desperate attempt to contrive a viable charge
This wasn't a well-thought out plan. Mr. Earle lost his job. This was not about drugs or alcohol. He recognizes he did wrong. He took some money that didn't belong to him. He is not a high-level residential burglar.
Towards four o'clock, the rebels felt strong enough to take the offensive. A brigade with a battery under Earle managed to strike the Federal right on the flank and rear and throw it into utter confusion, which spread rapidly along the whole front. Now came the disastrous end.
The one thing I think is pretty clear is that the arguments we levied when these indictments first came down, we've been vindicated. These things were baseless and manufactured. The judge threw out an indictment that Ronnie Earle spent three years to get. ... Members are starting to see that this is moving very rapidly. ... The momentum is with Mr. DeLay.
By pushing grand juries to issue politically motivated indictments of prominent Republicans, Ronnie Earle is trying to make it a crime to be conservative, to support an agenda of lower taxes and less government. That's un-American,
It is important because it shows what Ronnie Earle is doing. He's just using the claimed authority of his office to bully people around.
Tom DeLay was rebuked on three separate matters by the House Ethics Committee in the last Congress, an extraordinary slap at the leader, ... But they left open pending a fourth issue, which was the Ronnie Earle case in Texas. So what did the House Republicans do They fire the chairman of the Ethics Committee. They removed two members.
A few years later, my Uncle David took me to the Earle Theatre to hear Duke Ellington.
Ronnie Earle has stooped to a new low with his brand of prosecutorial abuse,
Ronnie Earle was abusing his power and getting subpoenas issued by a court that had no jurisdiction.