Agreed.
Everyone is free to their own beliefs. What they are not free to do is to force that belief on somebody else. Nobody has the right to tell someone else that they must adhere to a certain religious dogma.
Agree. 100%. Believe what you want. Don’t force others to adhere to your beliefs.
This also means don’t brainwash our children with mass media communist athiest, indoctrination
When a judge can’t be impartial, they are supposed to recuse themselves. Which is what this judge has done.
The standard you are trying to apply would mean the removal of any and every judge that has had a conflict of interest, even if they recused themselves.
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Odd. That’s exactly what you all are doing.
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You’re wrong.
No.
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No one. Ever.
You don’t live in a free country.
That’s not what he said.
She’s running.
The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct is applying the standard.
I am quite correct.
Florida used to have a convoluted mess of a judicial system. Between the 1940’s and 1970’s, they conducted major reforms of their judicial system, eliminating Justice of the Peace Courts and numerous other antiquated courts and streamlining the State to just 4 different kinds of courts, County (misdemeanor, small claims, etc), Circuit (general jurisdiction), District Court of Appeals (intermediate appellate) and the State Supreme Court.
Additionally, they eliminated judicial elections for appellate courts and went to non-partisan elections for trial courts.
Florida went from having one of the worst and most corrupt judicial systems to having one of the best and most efficient systems.
It is long past time that Texas, Pennsylvania, New York and others followed Florida’s example.
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No, you’re wrong. Texas is not Florida.
She needs to do her job or stop doing marriages as someone stated isn’t even necessary.
It is virtue signaling for votes.
She didn’t recuse herself. She continued to perform hetro marriages. Recusing is NOT performing any at all. This is stated in the first paragraph of the article:
“The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct on Monday issued a public warning to a Republican judge from Waco who refuses to perform same-sex marriages but still performs them for opposite-sex couples.”
So what?
If a judge has a conflict of interest with a criminal case, do they refuse themselves from all criminal cases?
Nope.
Can I make a bet that “The Texas Commission on Judicial Conduct” is in Austin?
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Right, you’re going to use a criminal case as an example? That’s not even mentioned in the article.
She either performs ALL marriages or NONE; that’s recusal.
“the withdrawal of a judge, prosecutor, or juror from a case on the grounds that they are unqualified to perform legal duties because of a possible conflict of interest or lack of impartiality.”
Florida structure is very similar to the Federal System, which of course operates, very effectively, in all States.
California has successfully streamlined their system even further, having only one trial court, the Superior, plus an intermediate appellate court and a Supreme Court.
There is nothing about Texas that would preclude a major streamlining of their courts.
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