Scalia says DeLay's name must remain on the ballot. Either he runs (and Christmas comes early) or the Democratic candidate Nick Lampson runs unopposed.
update:
A third alternative for the GOP is to back a write-in candidate. Paul Kiel at TPM Muckraker has some brief analysis of that possibility.
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