At least he avoided trading a stall for a cell

Former Idaho Senator Larry Craig's, well, tapped out:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge refused on Thursday to dismiss a Federal Election Commission lawsuit that accuses former Sen. Larry Craig of misusing $217,000 in campaign funds for his legal defense after his arrest in a 2007 airport bathroom sex sting.

Craig had argued that the airport bathroom trip fell under his official duties as senator because he was traveling between Idaho and Washington for work, and therefore the legal fees could be paid for with campaign money.

But U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson rejected that argument. She wrote in her ruling that the charge against Craig didn’t relate “to his conduct as a legislator, but only actions undertaken in the privacy and anonymity of a restroom stall.”

Once he was busted for his wide-stanced foot-tapping, Craig argued he was, in fact, on official bidness. How he maneuvered that argument around to not being on official bidness, well... who cares any more?