Showing posts with label Texas Constitution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Texas Constitution. Show all posts
Thursday, December 12, 2013

Has she no shame?

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It takes a certain kind of person to want to be an elected official. It's not everyone who can beg and grovel for money and signatures o...
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Thursday, December 5, 2013

Is it time to bail on the bond system?

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In Maryland whenever someone was arrested they would be brought before a judge who would determine if the defendant should be granted bail, ...
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Friday, January 11, 2013

The biggest loser

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14,278. That's the number of votes Republican judicial hopeful Brad Hart lost to incumbent Judge Maria Jackson this past November. T...
Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Merging courts a bad idea

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In the aftermath of Reconstruction, the people of Texas decided they wanted to keep the government as weak as possible so as to avoid anyone...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

And what alternative would you propose?

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Oh, Mark, Mark, Mark . Democracy is a very messy business. And, no, electing judges by partisan election isn't the best idea in the wo...
Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Will video kill our access to the courts?

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The "open courts provision" of the Texas Constitution guarantees people in Texas access to the courts. All courts shall be open, a...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

Debtor's prison, redux

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Even though federal debtor's prisons were outlawed in 1833 and the Texas Constitution forbade them in the Lone Star State in 1836, they ...
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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Duty and ethics

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I ran across a very interesting column in this morning's Houston Chronicle penned by Rick Casey about the State of Texas' attempt t...
Thursday, September 4, 2008

Justice, Collin County style

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In 1990, Charles Dean Hood was convicted for the murders of Ronald Williamson, his boss, and Tracie Wallace, Williamson's girlfriend. H...