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Legislative Committee Hears Keller Impeachment Resolution

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"Democrat vows to push Keller impeachment," is Chuck Lindell's report in today's Austin American-Statesman.Democratic Rep. Lon Burnam said Monday he will employ rarely used rules to try to force the Texas House to vote on impeaching the state's highest criminal judge for her role in a 2007 death penalty case. Burnam, of Fort Worth, said Sharon Keller, presiding judge of the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, is unfit to continue serving because of her pro-prosecution bias and because she turned away an after-hours appeal by lawyers for death row inmate Michael Richard, who was executed later that night. "She's an embarrassment to the state, she's an embarrassment to the Republican Party, she's an embarrassment to her profession," Burnam said...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on April 28, 2009 (boomark / email).