Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin said his team was naive in its belief that “principle would win out over politics.”
, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news., the lawyers who led the prosecution were riding high and feeling positive about the prospects of a conviction.
“I think a lot of us were naive enough to think that principle would win out over politics, but at the first vote I knew that it was over,” he said. Hardin agreed. “You cannot match impartiality with that speech at the end,” he said. “On some rulings, looking back, you realize what was going on.” The situation changed, however, when Patrick announced that he was going to grant Olson’s motion to quash the subpoena, she said. The “present but unavailable” language was suggested as a way to inform senators and the public that Olson wasn’t voluntarily freed from testifying “when it became clear a ruling was not going in our favor,” Epley said.
“Future generations will have nothing if we cannot save our country from corrupt, tyrannical, power-hungry politicians,” he said Friday.
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