No Slammer for Hammer
OK, so the warrant for the Hammer appears something of a formality, an "a capias" proceeding. DeLay's attorney Dick DeGuerin calls calls it all "a matter of routine, and bond will be posted." The sum in question, after all, is a paltry $10,000--the kind of cash Jack Abramoff finds balled up with used Kleenex when his gold-lame suits come back from the drycleaners. Still, we did have a pleasant reverie there for a moment or two, of a wide-eyed Hammer breaking into a furious sweat of desperation the moment his cellmate looked up and said, "You got a purty mouth."--HOLLY MARTINS
Texas Court Issues Warrant for DeLay [Yahoo News]