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Sharon Keller: Out by 2010?

I just put up a reader poll in the sidebar posing the question, "Will Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller keep her job through the end of the year?" Possible answers are "Yes," "No, she'll be impeached," No, she'll be removed by the Commission on Judicial Conduct," or "No, she'll resign."Until the House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee hearing last week, I would have prognosticated the chances Judge Keller would be impeached were exceedingly slim. Now I'm not so sure. For starters, a GOP committee chairman gave Burnam's resolution a hearing - a signal that concern about the CCA's presiding judge to at least some extent crosses party lines, something that was also evident among committee members at the hearing...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 03, 2009 (boomark / email).