John Garcia wrote:
>
> On Monday, July 28, 2003, at 09:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 7/27/2003 6:43:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> >
> >> And its unclear that "arrest" is even the proper word to describe
> >> what the
> >> Chairman tried to do - since I don't think that even if the Chairman's
> >> request had been carried out that the Democratic Representatives
> >> would have
> >> been detained, placed in jail, or had charges filed against them.
> >>
> >> At any rate, caning another Congreesman, literally nearly
> >> to death, on the
> >> floor of Congress is far worse.
> > Can we get real here. Once again this is not the 19th century. We are
> > talking about a congressman of one party trying to have congressmen of
> > the other party arrested. This is outragous behavior. It is not some
> > little prank
> >
>
> Y'know, the Dems should have let themselves be arrested. Its not as if
> they were going to spend even an hour in a DC holding cell, and the
> adverse publicity for the Republicans would have been beneficial to the
> Democrats.
But the police sent to arrest them might have realized that there were
no good grounds for arrest, and didn't do it for that reason.
I was reading something earlier this month where the legality of DPS
troopers in Texas arresting lawmakers to force a quorum was brought into
question. Not sure when, though, and I'm hazy enough on the laws
regarding elected officials and their duties to wonder if that's one of
those things that would have to go through the courts to be settled, at
least here. (Things can get a little weird in Texas politics....)
Julia
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