"If found guilty on the charges, Perry could be sentenced to a maximum 109 years in prison."

"If found guilty on the charges, Perry could be sentenced to a maximum 109 years in prison."

Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz, who is, in his own words, "a liberal Democrat who would never vote for Rick Perry," said "Everybody, liberal or conservative, should stand against this indictment."

Perry was indicted by a county grand jury based on having improperly tried to force a district attorney to resign. She was jailed for drunk driving - at nearly three times the legal blood alcohol limit. After being stopped for driving down a street the wrong way, she was found to have an open bottle of vodka in her car, and was belligerent and disrespectful of the arresting officers, repeatedly insisting that she was not intoxicated.

When she refused to resign after about a month in the slammer, Perry vetoed her agency's funding.

Professor Dershowitz and Obama's buddy David Axelrod have both pointed out that Perry's actions, like them or not, were perfectly acceptable under Texas law.