Judge Bill Gravell, a judge in Williamson County, Texas, was caught attending his grandson’s birthday party on Tuesday April 7–the same day he had extended his order requiring everyone in the county to stay home to the end of April amid the COVID-19 outbreak.
I’ll bet you twenty bucks that he also does not think Climate Change is a thing…
And while we are at it, just another metric to gauge how much we are winning…
The US now has as many confirmed cases as the next three countries combined, Spain, Italy and France. Within a few days, it will be the next 4…
He must be related to Brett Kavanaugh.
He should run as presidential candidate…
“Rules for thee but not for me” is one of the most timeless statements about the human condition.
These legal threats are bothersome and likely illegal. The powers of the government to quarantine have never been used to stop healthy people from the freedom of movement. I expect they’ll get challenged at some point and be knocked down.
photos of the judge decked out in firefighter bunker gear at his grandson’s home.
Looks like the judge thought he could go decked out like a latter day Village Person in a firefighter’s costume and be safe. Here come the judge
FYI: Williamson County, which shoulders Travis County (Austin) to the north, has been gradually shifting to blue. Nutless monkeys like Repugnican Gravell are still embedded in the judicial system.
It’s so weird how elected officials in Texas are proud Republicans when campaigning http://www.billforjudge.com/
and then become mysterious nonpartisan elected officials once something goes wrong.
Is a local ruling enforceable for anybody else if the guy who made the order flouts it? Probably not. Somebody needs to test it. Or at least the judge should get sick for real justice.
Texas! Hold my beer Florida-man.
Make that judge work here
Did the judge clean the fire fighting equipment he wore before returning it?
Georgetown defense attorney Robert McCabe told KXAN that Gravell had called him on Tuesday asking him if he could have the photos taken down, and McCabe informed the judge that he did not have the power to do so.
Why was the judge calling this particular attorney? What is McCabe’s role in this story?
Fixer.
Judges have power that DAs must respect, so they become lapdogs, as practical.
So it’s sort like our MIC in comparison to other countries…yea us.
Well with the conservatives that now stack the courts it will probably go that way. I thought when a Governor or President declared a “National Emergency” that restricting people’s freedom of movement could be limited under those terms?
And that’s with less than 1% of our population actually tested so far. The true numbers are likely staggeringly higher.
That may happen but he used public equipment and employees for his own benefit and that would probably have a heftier penalty than violating the stay order. At the very least it should cost him his office and all the illegal perks he apparently thinks go with it.
One of the strongest and most robust predictors of social distancing behavior is found in attitudes toward another major challenge facing the United States: climate change. Places where residents are less likely to agree that global warming is happening, that humans are the cause, and that we have an obligation to do something about it are the places where residents haven’t changed their behavior in response to coronavirus. The analysis makes clear that we have a collective action problem much larger than Covid-19.