Will SCOTUS Opinions Affect TX Judicial Elections?
The Texas legal community feared that two recent U.S. Supreme Court opinions would have far-reaching effects on judicial elections here. But the state’s current campaign finance laws may adequately address the issues presented by both cases, according to witnesses at a joint meeting of the House judiciary and elections committees on Thursday.
In Caperton v. Massey — in which the CEO of a West Virginia coal company spent over $3 million to elect a judge who would hear a case pending against him — the court ruled that big donations from parties with business before the court pose “a serious ...
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Richard Stewart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Yeah , you're kidding !!! GET real !!
Richard Stewart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Republican and impartial never go together!
Richard Stewart via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Most Texas judges are Republican ... We might have two judges in the state of Texas that are Democrats. Those Judges can be Impartial Judges.
Thomas Fox via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Impartiality? In Texas, are you kidding.
Christopher Keeble via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I know of at least three judges in Houston that are D's.
Donald Dickson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
I commend to you John Grisham's "The Appeal." One of his better efforts at plausibility. It's set in Mississippi, but you could envision it happening here just as easily. Hell, it may have already happened here.
Scott Kilpatrick via Texas Tribune on Facebook
Richard, you're just as detrimental to critical thinking as the Republican cheerleaders are. There are plenty of crooks and charlatans in the Democratic party as well. The danger of a biased, financially motivated judiciary transcends the two big parties.
Charles Bloom via Texas Tribune on Facebook
You people need to come to Collin County and investigate a judicial (and political) system that knows no bounds, no morals and no justice.
Ellen Gresham via Texas Tribune on Facebook
so true, Charles