Texas Republicans abandon DeLay fight - Yahoo! News

Apparently, some Rethugs think Delay can win another term, indictment and all.

If he does, Texas should be given back to Mexico, forthwith

Texas Republicans abandon DeLay fight - Yahoo! News:

WASHINGTON - Texas Republicans on Monday abandoned their court fight to replace former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay on the November ballot after being turned back at the Supreme Court.

The decision came after Justice Antonin Scalia rejected Texas Republicans' request to block an appeals court ruling saying DeLay's name should remain on the ballot.

'I think all our legal avenues are exhausted in terms of affecting the ruling prior to the election,' said Jim Bopp Jr., the attorney who argued the Republican Party's case to allow party officials to substitute another candidate for DeLay.

Under indictment on money laundering charges in Texas, DeLay won a March primary election that made him the Republican nominee for Congress from his home district near Houston. In June, he resigned from Congress and said he would not seek re-election.