Abbott is just another Trump lackey doing whatever he can to get in the good graces of the Trump White house. The man has no backbone when it comes to defying Trump, he is a political coward. Yet the dummies in east and west Texas keep voting for him, how else do you account for a moron like Lt. governor Dan Patrick.
And if by âlaissez faireâ we mean âsubsidized with other peopleâs money.â
Needless to say, all of this is what @txlawyer meant in the first place!
WHY would any person at risk want to live in ANY of these states? When your own government wonât protect you why should you support them and/or pay taxes to them?
Abbott has a backbone, however itâs made up of feces-colored jello!
Inbreeding?
Actually, itâs a steel rod.
âhardened criminalsâ were let out of jail to tamp down the spread of coronavirus.
did they let Crystal Mason out? ⊠or is she worse than a âhardened criminalâ?
A Texas appeals court on Thursday upheld a five-year prison sentence for a woman who was convicted of illegally voting even though she didnât know she was ineligible when she went to the polls in 2016. The punishment for the Fort Worth woman, Crystal Mason, stirred national outrage
What the fuck? The governor has the authority to do this because�
What authority does the Texas Supreme Court have over a case of criminal contempt? The Court of Criminal Appeals has exclusive jurisdiction.
@tena: WTF is going on here?
You tell me.
The governor signs an order and when the county seeks to enforce it the governor says it canât and takes up the scofflaw and presents her as a hero.
Itâs just the ratwing doing its thing but it is not lost on any of us here in Dallas County that this is absurd.
Because it conducts electricity more effectively when Covidiot wants to give him a little jolt?
Maybe she and Trumpie can be roomies. Apparently he voted by mail when he wasnât a legal resident of Fla, yet.
And we can lie to the FBI at will! Itâs a glorious day for the only country our Heavenly Father cares about!
Judge MoyĂ© found Luther in civil and criminal contempt of court: the civil contempt part was to âpersuadeâ her to obey his previous order and the criminal contempt part was to punish her for having disobeyed it.
In Texas the Supreme Court has jurisdiction over civil cases even if there is a criminal component.
Anyway.
Before the Supreme Court acted to release Luther temporarily while it ponders her case, AG Ken Paxton had written to Judge MoyĂ© in Dallas to âurgeâ him to do the wrong thing. All twelve Dallas District Court judges, including MoyĂ©, wrote back to Paxton:
Aside: Notice the reference to the Texas Supreme Court.
Next, having responded to Paxton, Judge Moyé sent Luther to jail.
Enter Ted Cruz, who said Luther had been sentenced to â7 days in jail for cutting hair??â
And then Paxton said sheâd been jailed âfor operating her hair salon in an attempt to put food on her familyâs table.â
They both know why Luther was actually sent to jail, so theyâre either liars or demagogues. (Obviously thatâs not an exclusive or.)
Difficult philosophical question.
But as you know, Judge Moyé is a Democrat and the Texas Supreme Court is entirely Republican.
Also, as Trump would say, âThis I can tell youâ:
Despite any appearance to the contrary, the governorâs reversing himself was not the authority under which the Supreme Court temporarily released Luther. Or at least, the Court made no reference to it.
They had clerks smart enough to recognize that making reference to it would expose them all to ethics complaints?
Abbottâs latest order, which he deemed retroactive, said that no one should be prosecuted as a criminal for violating his previous orders.
Whereas Luther had been sent to jail the previous day for contempt of court: i. e., for refusing to honor a judgeâs order; and to persuade her to honor it (going forward).
And yes, mootness could be an issue, depending.
Sigh.
My first judge, Leon Douglas, had served multiple terms when he lost in the 1980 Democratic primary (DixiePubs were an emergent phenomenon at the time; it was the primary that counted). The dingbat who beat him, a loquacious, drunken defense lawyer, was named Marvin O. Teague.
Texas voters didnât know squat about these candidates, but they did know of Leon Douglas the four-time all-SEC and then-starting NBA center from Alabama. And many Texans heard often about representative Olin (Tiger) Teague, a hyperconservative good olâ boy.
So how do we think Texas voters, who probably never saw photos of the candidates, pictured them? And how do we think this affected their votes?
Before the election, for which there had been, of course, no polling, the judge told me he rather expected to lose, because of the candidatesâ names.
[At Judge Douglasâ urging, I worked for the dingbat when he came to the court. For as long as I could stand it. Almost four months.]
On the jurisdiction, thanks for the analysis.
Got any idea how the guv can ordain the end to punishment in future cases? I mean, an order not to jail such offenders until the pandemic were controlled, sure, cuz jails are great cauldrons for brewing up batches of virus. (Except in Nebraska, where nary a prisoner in the state has tested positive. Or negative.)
Although I am cheered by the improvement wrought in Dallasâ trial courts by the political shift, I am no less pissed off than I was when I first moved here that partisan judicial elections govern our trial and appellate courts in the first place.