The latest in the Tom DeLay legal battle:

An appeals court Wednesday upheld a judge’s ruling throwing out a felony conspiracy charge against former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay.

DeLay, who announced this month that he is resigning his congressional seat, still faces a money-laundering charge and another conspiracy charge stemming from the financing of state legislative races in 2002.

A lower court judge dismissed a conspiracy charge against DeLay in December, agreeing with defense arguments that the conspiracy law did not cover election code violations in 2002; the Legislature amended the law in 2003.

DeLay’s lawyers expect that Political Hack Prosecutor Ronnie Earle, “will appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals, the state highest court for criminal matters.”