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Texas Judges Run in the Dark

By Steve Hall

That's the title of an editorial in today's Austin American-Statesman making endorsement for Texas high courts races in the upcoming general election.  LINK As we've noted many times before, Texans zealously cling to their right to elect their judges but would be hard pressed to name even a few of the 18 people who occupy the benches of two highest courts in the state, the Texas Supreme Court and the Court of Criminal Appeals.Nonetheless, every two years, judicial candidates ask people for money and votes then cross their fingers. There might be a better way to do this, but until Texas finds it, the state's voters will hand the power to redirect lives and money to people they barely know.The nine-member Supreme Court is the last stop in the state system for civil disputes, and, as the name implies, the Court of Criminal Appeals is the last word in the state system for criminal cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on October 07, 2010 (boomark / email).