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Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is an elitist who thinks he is superior to other Texans. While everyone else in his state has to be tried in a system tainted by partisan, money-grubbing elected judges, DeLay thinks he can judge shop.
Thanks to DeLay and Karl Rove, the partisan fault lines have deepened. This has had a deleterious affect on the bench. Indeed, the New York Times reports the system is broken:
The complaints against the Texas judicial system have a long history. In 1987, "60 Minutes," in a program called "Justice for Sale," showed Texas Supreme Court justices taking hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from lawyers appearing before them. Eleven years later, "60 Minutes" found that little had changed.
In 1998, Texas for Public Justice issued its own report, finding that the seven Texas Supreme Court justices elected since 1994 had raised $9.2 million, of which 40 percent came from interests with cases before the court. A survey taken for the court itself, the group said, found that nearly half of the judges themselves thought that campaign contributions significantly affected their decisions.
I've got a problem that DeLay didn't have a problem until he had a problem. Got that?
For years, DeLay said nothing about the Texas system of justice. But now that he is in trouble for corruption and scumbaggery, he is whining like a crybaby. "Waaaa. Waaaa. Waaaa. Find me a corrupt judge."
DeLay made his legal bed and now he must sleep in it. The time to change the Texas legal system was when he was a powerful Texas politician, not when he is on trial.
2 Comments:
Not exactly on topic - but Texas has joined countless other States in denying Gay Americans Equal Protection Under the Law.
Prop 2 - As it was known here - the Constitutional Amendment that "protects" the "sanctity" of Marriage passed overwhelming today.
I held out hope that at least it would be a close race - but bigotry and hatred won out with a whopping 74% +/- voting for this Constitutional amendment.
I'm loosing faith in America. I'm loosing faith in our system. I'm loosing faith in my fellow human beings. All the work was for naught -- or so it would appear.
